Knowing that the teenage years are often a tumultuous period in a young person’s life, Boutelle and her colleagues set out to determine whether obesity contributes to the development of depression among youth. This is in contrast to the well-documented conclusion that depression increases the ris...
White teenage girls with obesity who lose weight may benefit physically, but the weight change does not guarantee a boost to their self-esteem. Why is it important to help patients overcome the negative stereotypes associated with obesity?Contemporary Pediatrics Staff...
A review of case-control and cohort studies suggest that such protection applies mainly to obesity in teenage girls, whereas obesity appearing after the teenage years is more likely to be associated with a higher risk of postmenopausal breast cancer. The mechanisms are uncertain. There is evidence...
Doctors suggest that serious lifestyle disorder such as a poor diet high on calorie and low on nutrition, peer pressure, and near-absence of physical activity are the primary reasons of abnormal body mass index (BMI) in teenaged girls. This often leads to chronic health con...
Concerns about Teenage Obesity and Diet Behaviors : Middle and High School Students in Ulsan 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 17 作者:Jeonghee,Seo,Eunjeong,Huh,Soon-Myung,Hong 摘要: This study is to investigate the concerns about obesity and diet behaviors among 565 middle and high school...
developing breasts before their ninth birthday and starting menstruation before age 12 – the western average for menstruation is about 12.7 years. Early-onset puberty could have serious health and social consequences, experts say, including increased incidence of teenage depression and of cancer in ...
Dabelea D, Stafford JM, Mayer-Davis EJ, et al; SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Research Group. Association of type 1 diabetes vs type 2 diabetes diagnosed during childhood and adolescence with complications during teenage years and young adulthood. JAMA. 2017;317(8):825-835. do...
BMI29 – 33. Despite a strict nutritional program for these girlsand a physical activity program, these teenage girls didnot succeed in losing weight. What was common to allnine was that their social life started close to midnight andended at 4 – 5 am, after which they slept for 4 – ...
Teenage obesity has seen a major increase recently. With an increase in screen time and a reduction of physical activity, children and teens are gaining weight at an alarming rate. While teenage obesity is linked to numerous health problems like diabetes
Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according to a Kaiser Permanente st