School-based nutritional programmes can help cut obesity in kids
Lifestyle | December 17, 2018 23:21 ISTBeing overweight or obese early in life affects health across the lifespan.
Being overweight or obese early in life affects health across the lifespan.
Overweight or obese patients were matched with normal weight patients of the same age, gender, race, ethnicity, insurance type and location of care.
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The findings showed that the offspring of obese fathers had reduced whole body and skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity and reduced insulin secretion.
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Importantly, children with asthma who used medication had the strongest risk of developing obesity.
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The higher the woman's blood sugar, the greater the risk of her child being obese.
Obesity is a major risk factor for asthma, in part because of the systemic and localised inflammation of the airways that occur in people with a high body mass index.
Obesity has been linked to factors such as genetics, diet, physical activity and the environment.
This is in contrast with most of the literature and we think this is because most studies have defined metabolic healthy obesity as having up to one metabolic risk factor
The study also revealed that certain areas of the brain respond differently to risk factors associated with Alzheimer's.
The Joslin scientists found that mice on a high-fat diet showed significantly more signs of anxiety, depression and obsessive behaviour than animals on standard diets.
The analysis highlighted that obesity more than doubled the likelihood of not achieving remission in women.
The study found that genetic associations on body mass index (BMI) were strongest in sedentary postmenopausal women.
The team also found that junk food cravings were associated with double the increase in the likelihood of night time snacking, which was associated with an increased risk for diabetes.
Importantly, the majority of women who were initially metabolically healthy obese and of normal weight converted to unhealthy phenotypes over 20 years.
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