Several European countries have seen notable increases as well. For example, Hungary’s obesity rate has climbed to about 32%, and the UK has an obesity rate of approximately 27%. These increases are attributed to dietary changes and lower levels of physical activity. ...
at understanding obesity and hampering obesity growth in Latin America should involve multidisciplinary, global approaches that consider these determinants to build more effective public policy and strategies, accounting for regional differences and disease complexity at the individual and systemic levels. ...
The article reports on the increasing obesity levels in Northern Ireland. According to the Northern Ireland Audit Office, more than 62,000 people in the country have type 2 diabetes which could rise to more than 81,000 by 2015. It also stresses that there were more than 2,100 deaths a ...
Late bedtime behavior was associated with higher levels of anthropometric measurements of obesity and prevalence of general obesity or abdominal obesity, particularly in women. Nocturnal sleep shorter than 5 hours per night was significantly associated with obesity, especially general obesity; furthermore,...
it has been suggested that such increases in body weight have been caused primarily by reduced levels of physical activity, rather than by changes in food intake or by other factors. It is extremely difficult to assess the size of the problem and compare the prevalence rates in different count...
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The prevalence of obesity has increased worldwide in the past ~50 years, reaching pandemic levels. Obesity represents a major health challenge because it substantially increases the risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, fatty liver disease, hypertension, myocardial infarction, stroke, dem...
Therefore, the high levels of obesity in our sample may reflect a health-risk that is specific for (families of) children with ASD. The current study had some limitations. We used a national reference group to compare obesity rates. One might consider this a limitation, as the Fifth ...
children are thus growing in a world that gives them many opportunities for passive entertainment and provides an abundance of food. Studies of the activity level of very young children are few but their results indicate that infants and toddlers follow the trend toward lower levels of physical ac...
The changing numbers can partly be tied to the coronavirus pandemic, which "changed eating habits, worsened levels of food insecurity, created obstacles to physical activity, and heightened stress," according to the report from the Trust for America's Health. Since the pandemic ...