Rise in childhood obesity with per- sistently high rates of undernutrition among urban school-aged Indo-Asian children. Arch Dis Child 2008;93:373-8.Jafar TH, Qadri Z, Islam M, Hatcher J, Bhutta ZA, Chaturvedi N. Rise in childhood obesity with persistently high rates of undernutri- tion...
aAfter years of dismal and discouraging data showing a seemingly inexorable rise in childhood obesity, recent research in California shows that the fight against this epidemic is finally starting to pay off. 在显示表面上不屈不挠的上升的几年忧郁和劝阻的数据以后在童年肥胖病,对加利福尼亚的最近研究...
Childhood obesity is one of the most serious global public-health challenges of the twenty-first century. Over the past four decades, the number of children and adolescents with obesity has risen more than tenfold. Worldwide, an increasing number of yout
childhood obesity rates have been on the rise.Now some US cities,including Philadelphia,New York City and Los Angeles,are seeing progress in their fight against obesity.Dropping childhood obesity rates have also been reported in parts of Mississippi,the state with the highest obesity rate in the ...
childhood obesity rates have been on the rise.Now some US cities,including Philadelphia,New York City and Los Angeles,are seeing progress in their fight against obesity.Dropping childhood obesity rates have also been reported in parts of Mississippi,the state with the highest obesity rate in the ...
Childhood obesity is on the rise in the U.S. after all, according to a new report published inJAMA Pediatrics. Most alarming, the study finds an increase in the number of children with severe forms of obesity, whose body mass index measured 120- to 140-percent higher than children of ave...
"The burden of obesity is usually thought to have its serious consequences in adulthood, but we now see it manifesting earlier, in childhood," said Dr Sonia Saxena, from the School of Public Health at Imperial, who led the study. "It's clear that rising obesity levels are causing moremedi...
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...
, according to a recent study by a researcher in the University of Georgia College of Public Health. The impact of this "knowledge gap" could help to explain the rise of childhood obesity, Type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Native American and Mexican-American populations in Arizona...
“Compared with their parents’ generation, today’s rural children are better fed but spend far less time engaging in physical exercise,” said Zhao Jinshan, another of the authors. “Unlike their parents who ran around having fun and staying fit, many of today’s rural children are couch ...