A new study finds that obesity rates in China are soaring and putting a heavy burden on the country's health system.
... Based on body mass index measures, obesity prevalence was estimated at 31.2 percent ... purposes of this analysis. Because obesity rates based on BMI have been increasing steadily for adults and children ...
... report."
The report offers a list of actions that hold the greatest potential to curb obesity rates among children. Many of these steps focus on increasing access to healthy foods and opportunities ...
Decreased physical activity may have little to do with the recent spike in obesity rates among U.S. adolescents, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. ...
Obesity rates appear high in most but not all ethnic groups in the United States, and extra weight is associated with cardiovascular risk factors and markers of sub-clinical heart disease, according ...
Obesity rates appear high in most but not all ethnic groups in the United States, and extra weight is associated with ... overweight (60 percent to 85 percent) and obese (30 percent to 50 percent), while ...
Childhood obesity, on the rise for more than two decades, appears to be holding steady, a new study indicates.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered a gene that may provide a clue as to why obesity rates increase with age. The research was published today in the Proceedings of the ...
... -weight babies and to be able to reassure those who are not carrying one that is larger than average. Similar obesity rates are now being recorded in some parts of Europe as well.
"Because a simple ...
... minutes of exercise per day, according to public health officials. A new report issued this week showed that adult obesity rates rose in 37 states, and all states except Colorado now ...
... game players in their bedrooms. At the same time, obesity rates continue to increase worldwide; sedentary ... of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, measured heart rate and energy (calorie) expenditure in 18 children ...
... like school, home and neighborhood, and how these environments can influence our health in many ways. Obesity rates have nearly tripled in Canada over the past two decades and helping children to ...
... , such as lacking sidewalks for walking or biking or to have few places to be active.
"Although obesity rates are higher in rural areas, this is one of the first studies to look at food choices and ...
... and race/ethnic group were studied.
Results show that there was an increased risk for midlife obesity in Mexican-American women who had a disadvantaged economic status measured during childhood and ...
... 575,000 Mexican-American women who are obese. A new study published in the journal Public ... Nursing reveals that there is an increased risk for midlife obesity among Mexican-American and White women ...
