Obesity and overweight are increasing among young people in Britain. McCarthy and colleagues (p [624][1]) compared data from two large cross sectional surveys of British youth (aged 11 to 16) spanning a total of 20 years. They found that waist circumference, a measure of central fatness, ...
Conclusions Increasing the price of high sugar snacks by 20% could reduce energy intake, BMI, and prevalence of obesity. This finding was in a UK context and was double that modelled for a similar price increase in sugar sweetened beverages....
“they are accelerating at analarming rate in many other parts of the world"可知,在除欧洲许多高收入国家之外的其他很多地方,儿童肥胖率急速上升,故排除A项;根据第二段中的“The largest increase in the number of obesechildren has been in East Asia. China and India have seen rates‘balloon’in ...
Obesity rates are increasing almost everywhere in the world, although the pace and timing for this increase differ when populations from developed and developing countries are compared. The sharp and more recent increase in obesity rates in many Latin American countries is an example of that and re...
Results from the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s study found that the odds of a child being obese increase about 14% for every five extra years of their mother’s age, though why this should be so is not entirely clear.Michael Symonds at the University of Nottingham, UK,...
(Mattson et al.,2014; Mullan et al.,2017). Negative energy balance is not the only factor, however, and with heterogeneity across socioeconomic groups, the specific causes for the rapid and recent increase in U.S. obesity remain unclear (Cook et al.,2017; Dwyer–Lindgren et al.,2013; ...
What is the main idea of this passage? A.Obesity is now a global problem that needs tackling. B.The weights increase fast throughout the whole world. C.Obesity and starvation are two main problems in the poor world. D.Obesity has shifted front the rich world to the poor world. 点击查看...
Some small studies have suggested an increase in childhood obesity — especially during the pandemic. During the pandemic, kids were kept home from schools. Their eating and bedtime schedules were changed and physical activity decreased. 2020年以来发生了什么尚不清楚。 一些小型研究表明,儿童肥胖症有...
He is confident that science will, eventually, be able to 'cure' some forms of obesity but the only effective way for the vast majority of overweight and obese people to lose weight is a change of diet and an increase in exercise.F Despite the $500 million a year Australians spend ...
Being obese can increase the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease by as much as 80 per cent, according to a study in the May issue of Obesity Reviews.