As childhood-obesity rates skyrocket, doctors are seeing an alarming rise in a costly disease once unheard of in children: type 2 diabetes. Unlike type 1, or "juvenile" diabetes--an autoimmune disorder in which the pancreas stops producing insulin--type 2 diabetes is linked to diet and life...
but they're not," von Hippel said. "Schools have never been a big part of the obesity problem. What we're seeing in elementary schools today is the same thing that we saw in 1998-2000; kids are gaining BMI at healthy rates during the school year, and then becoming...
根据第三段“Interestingly, these results challenge the conventional belief that over-eating is main cause of increasing obesity rates among children. In addition, factors like watching too much television, consuming sugary drinks, eating fruits and introducing solid food sooner don’t certainly lead ...
Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and four times in adolescents in the past 30 years. Moreover, rates of childhood diabetes(糖尿病) 4 (rise). These conditions can put children 5 risk for heart disease and other major killers later in life.These health issues are complex ...
Between 1997 and 2014, children in households with adults educated to degree level generally had lower obesity rates than those with lower level or no formal qualifications. And while there was no difference in the prevalence of childhood obesity/overweight between single and couple-parent families ...
communicable Diseases 2013–2025” set targets to halt the rise of obesity among young people [13], and the “WHO Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition” identifies as a priority stopping the increase of childhood overweight and obesity rates by 2025 [14...
Poor dietary habits, such as consuming high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and sugary beverages, combined with insufficient physical activity, are major contributors to the increasing rates of obesity among young people. The prevalence of sedentary activities, such as excessive screen time and lack of ...
The figures show that the obesity rates in the world's children and adolescents increased from less than one percent, or some five million girls and six million boys, in 1975 to nearly six percent in girls (50 million) and nearly eight percent in boys (74 million) in 2016. Combined, the...
M. Simpson et al., "Sustainability of effects of an early childhood obesity prevention trial over time: a further 3-year follow-up of the healthy beginnings trial," JAMA Pediatrics, vol. 169, no. 6, pp. 543-551, 2015.Wen, L.M.; Baur, L.A.; Simpson, J.M.; Xu, H.; Hayes, ...
compiled by the swedish childhood obesity treatment register. almost 22,000 children were covered by that database, and their incidence of ms later in life was compared to that of similar, non-obese children from the general swedish population. rates of cases of newly diagnosed ms ...