In recent presentations on BBC News, researchers have challenged the assumption that weight gain, particularly in children, is caused by a lack of exercise. The investigators followed a group of more than 200 children for 11 years, regularly monitoring body fat and exercise. Their findings suggest that rather than weight gain being caused by a [...]
According to a 2007–2008 assessment by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the U.S. approximately 68% of all adults and approximately 32% of children and adolescents are overweight.1,2 These disturbing numbers have been steadily increasing over the past ten years. Preliminary research suggests that eating fast and takeout foods is an important factor [...]
A recent article in United Healthcare’s newsletter, Healthy Mind, Healthy Body, discussed the health risk factors commonly known as “metabolic syndrome” and outlined lifestyle changes that can help reduce the risks.
In decades past, people in developed countries tended to be of normal weight when they were children and young adults, and if they gained weight, it was only when they became older, more sedentary, with a slowing metabolic rate.
In a paper published in the January 2010 edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine¹ (published by Elsevier Inc.), researchers from Columbia University and The City College of New York reviewed data from 1992 to 2008 and asked the question in the U.S.: “Does the burden of [being overweight] outweigh the burden of smoking?”
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