• American adults had higher prevalences for overweight and obesity (76% vs 70%), diabetes (15% vs 13%), and hypertension (48% vs 40%) than their white counterparts (2). (cdc.gov)
  • Childhood overweight and obesity often persist in adulthood, which increases the risks of premature mortality and physical morbidity across the lifespan [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • INTRODUCTION: A healthy diet is recommended to support diabetes management, including HbA1c, blood pressure, and cholesterol (ABC) control, but food insecurity is a barrier to consuming a healthy diet. (cdc.gov)
  • We determined the prevalence of food insecurity and diet quality among US adults with diabetes and the associations with ABC management. (cdc.gov)
  • Adjusted ORs (aOR, 95% CI) were calculated from logistic regression models to determine the association between household food insecurity/diet quality and the ABCs while controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, healthcare utilization, smoking, medication for diabetes, blood pressure, or cholesterol, and body mass index. (cdc.gov)
  • For people with food insecurity, providing resources to reduce food insecurity could strengthen the overall approach to optimal diabetes management. (cdc.gov)
  • The study included 15,888 incident T2D cases and 79,435 controls without diabetes, frequency-matched 1:5 on age, sex, and year of diagnosis or encounter. (cdc.gov)
  • While the link between sleep, obesity and diabetes has become a burgeoning area of research, this was the first time someone had shown how sleep changes human metabolism at a molecular level. (truebluevision.ca)
  • Obesity, diabetes, and hypertension have reached epidemic levels in the largely rural Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) region. (cdc.gov)
  • Madani (2000) reminds that obesity is a direct contributor increase in mortality rates due to cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and non-insulin dependent diabetes. (fromemuseum.org)
  • Obesity is the heavy and disproportionate collation of fat to an extent that that it can significantly increase risk of disease contraction which can prove detrimental to health like heart disease and diabetes. (fromemuseum.org)
  • Background The UK Bangladeshi community is socially disadvantaged, and many adults suffer from obesity, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses. (human-biology-and-public-health.org)
  • UQ researchers seek clinicians who treat, and parents/guardians, of infants (0-2yrs) to hep with the development of a digital tool used to predict childhood obesity. (edu.au)
  • In modern Saudi Arabian society, childhood obesity remains the most significant of health concerns, detracting from overall well-being regardless of economic or social factors. (fromemuseum.org)
  • Childhood obesity is reported to be associated with the risk of many diseases in adulthood. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We identified potential causal effects of childhood obesity on 60 adult traits (27 disease-related traits, 27 lifestyle factors, and 6 other traits). (biomedcentral.com)
  • For dietary habits, different from conventional understanding, we found that higher childhood BMI was associated with low calorie density food intake. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Therefore, ensuring that childhood obesity does not persist into later life might be useful for reducing the detrimental effects of childhood obesity on adult diseases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • With a large amount of GWAS summary data deposited in public databases, two-sample MR analysis provides a cost-efficient way to investigate the potential causal effects of childhood obesity on adult traits. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Longer commute times and greater retail gaps may contribute to the rural obesity disparity. (cdc.gov)
  • A main aim of this analysis is to investigate the relationship between urban and rural obesity as well as the other variables including exercise and diet which influence the prevalence of this disease. (fromemuseum.org)
  • Family food insufficiency, but not low family income, is positively associated with dysthymia and suicide symptoms in adolescents. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Recognising such deficiency, the aims of this analysis revolve around conduct of a cross-sectional research study in an attempt to define the socio-economic relationship with obesity in Saudi Arabia among adolescents. (fromemuseum.org)
  • Further research on adolescents' food purchasing habits with larger samples in varied geographic regions is required to identify robust relationships between proximity and diet, as small numbers, because of confounding, may dilute effect food environment effects. (biomedcentral.com)
  • School food environments are an important alternative environmental exposure for diet outcomes in children and adolescents. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted at 14 schools in the city of Ribeirão Preto (SP) including adolescents aged 10 to 19 years who answered a questionnaire about sleep habits. (bvsalud.org)
  • 2021). reliability and validity of the brief illness perception questionnaire in bahasa malaysia for patients with cancer. (ukm.my)
  • 2021). reliability and validity of the malay mindful eating questionnaire (meq-m) among overweight and obese adult. (ukm.my)
  • El objetivo del estudio es comparar las características de los pacientes fallecidos por COVID-19 en dos años, enero-diciembre, 2021 y enero-julio 2022. (una.py)
  • De 5265 pacientes internados con COVID-19, fallecieron 1512, siendo la letalidad global de 28,7%, en el 2021 fue 26,3% (1164/4423) y 41,3% (348/842) en el 2022. (una.py)
  • El 69% de los fallecidos eran mayores de 60 años en el 2022 y 48,3% en 2021. (una.py)
  • Determinar los EA de las vacunas contra la COVID-19 aplicadas en el Paraguay en el 2021. (una.py)
  • Individually, they looked at issues from sleep in space flight (it turns out that like the rest of us, astronauts on the International Space Station don't sleep as much as NASA says they should) to how chronic partial sleep deprivation affects a key enzyme in the brains of adolescent rats. (truebluevision.ca)
  • This chronic disease is characterized by a severe imbalance in energy metabolism as a result of excessive food intake in tandem with reduced energy expenditure. (fromemuseum.org)
  • National health organizations recommend primary care providers screen patients for food insecurity, since not having access to enough food can lead to chronic diseases. (ucanr.edu)
  • The frequency and persistence of sleep problems are what distinguish chronic insomnia from briefcases of sleeplessness. (swapanly.com)
  • Future research should examine these relationships longitudinally and should test community-level obesity prevention strategies. (cdc.gov)
  • Physical activity and healthy eating are well-established strategies for individual weight control and obesity prevention [ 12 , 13 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The problems of obesity and overweight are seen in adults and children in both developed and developing countries (World Health Organization (WHO), 1999). (fromemuseum.org)
  • To examine cross-sectional associations between individual-level BMI (n = 9,375) and county-level commute times and food retail gap per capita, we used multilevel regression models. (cdc.gov)
  • By exploring the specific caloric intake levels and food profiles, determination will be made regarding consumption differences between rural and urban areas, generating a blueprint of obesity that supersedes traditional boundaries. (fromemuseum.org)
  • The main cause of obesity is energetic imbalance due to increased caloric intake and little expenditure. (hrb.ie)
  • To better understand associations between area-level factors and obesity, we conducted ecologic analyses of associations between the percentage of rural-dwelling residents, commute times, food retail gaps, and BMI for all 100 North Carolina counties. (cdc.gov)
  • Dietary patterns provide a holistic approach to understanding the relationship between disease/condition with food intake, quantity, quality and nutrient interactions. (springer.com)
  • Using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data to Estimate the Percentage of the Population Meeting US Department of Agriculture Food Patterns Fruit and Vegetable Intake Recommendations. (cdc.gov)
  • They found that poor sleep quality was correlated with greater intake of food and lower diet quality. (drarchik.com)
  • A validated self-report questionnaire was used to measure vegetable intake, and personal, social and environmental factors related to vegetable intake in the classroom. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Whilst there are a genetic, environmental and psychological components contributing to obesity, the main cause is a lack of activity combined with high calorie food intake. (fromemuseum.org)
  • Based on these reports, the current review aims to assess the possible impacts of foodborne NP with regard to the risk of food allergy (FA) development. (frontiersin.org)
  • Food insecurity was assessed using a standard questionnaire and diet quality was assessed using quartiles of the 2015 Healthy Eating Index. (cdc.gov)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Food insecurity, regardless of diet quality, was significantly associated with elevated A1c. (cdc.gov)
  • Paper presented at the Workshop on the Measurement of Food Insecurity and Hunger, July 15, 2004. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Panel to Review the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Measurement of Food Insecurity and Hunger. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Household food insecurity and children's school engagement. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Few primary care providers screened for food insecurity during the pandemic and screening rates were lower during virtual appointments, according to a UC Davis study led by Cooperative Extension specialist Cassandra Nguyen. (ucanr.edu)
  • As jobless rates rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, millions more Americans experienced food insecurity because they lacked consistent access to food. (ucanr.edu)
  • But research from the University of California, Davis, finds that only 7% of primary care providers screened patients for food insecurity. (ucanr.edu)
  • These rates are surprising and seem relatively small in comparison with what seems like a growing awareness of food insecurity during the pandemic," said lead author Cassandra Nguyen , an assistant professor of Cooperative Extension in the UC Davis Department of Nutrition. (ucanr.edu)
  • Screening for food insecurity at telehealth appointments remained low even after vaccines became available. (ucanr.edu)
  • One of those barriers could be a concern about privacy and whether the patient is alone or feels comfortable discussing a potentially stigmatizing experience such as food insecurity. (ucanr.edu)
  • One approach to address food insecurity at UC Berkeley is a course on Personal Food Security and Wellness, with a Teaching Kitchen component that brings the lessons to life through knife skills, "no-cook" cooking, microwave cooking and sheet pan meals. (ucanr.edu)
  • Within the University of California system of 280,000 students, 38% of undergraduate students and 20% of graduate students report food insecurity. (ucanr.edu)
  • As part of the UC Global Food Initiative, in 2015 the Nutrition Policy Institute (a UC Agriculture and Natural Resources statewide research center) identified student food insecurity as a UC systemwide problem, prompting the UC Regents and campuses to collectively address the issue. (ucanr.edu)
  • We seek to offer helpful insights into controlling and treating insomnia by looking at evidence-based tactics, food and lifestyle changes, and the function of cognitive-behavioral therapy. (swapanly.com)
  • In addition to shiftwork, many researchers revealed that long working hours may contribute to obesity if workers had decreased physical activity and fewer meals at home and consumed more fast food or pre-prepared processed food.15-17 Escoto et al17 showed that transit workers with long work hours had elevated obesity and poor dietary habits. (cdc.gov)
  • Overall, the objectives of this analysis are to provide indicative data regarding obesity prevalence and the association of socio-demographic and lifestyle variables including dietary habits and exercise frequency. (fromemuseum.org)
  • The latter can be used as a proxy for body weight trajectory because silhouettes scales have high correlation with body mass index (BMI) and they work well to identify obesity and underweight in the Brazilian adult and older adult population [ 6 , 7 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Another hypothesized mechanism underlying the rural-urban obesity disparity is that rural residents may spend more time traveling to work or to obtain goods and services than do their urban counterparts. (cdc.gov)
  • Although mortality associated with obesity has declined over the last three decades in NZ, the rate of decline has been slower among Māori and Pacific Island populations [ 12 , 13 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Traditionally research has focused on individual food items or food classes to generate an understanding of disease risk. (springer.com)
  • Certain key foods that are part of the Mediterranean diet are rich in melatonin, serotonin, and vitamin D. Preliminary research suggests that certain foods including milk, fatty fish, tart cherry juice, and kiwi fruit may improve sleep. (drarchik.com)
  • I substantiate this claim with two examples, the medical debate about cancer classification and about obesity as a disease I also argue that the proper target of conceptual engineering in medical research are experts' conceptions. (philpapers.org)
  • of obesity research. (philpapers.org)
  • To determine the association between racial discrimination and heart disease, the research team employed a detailed questionnaire that assessed participants' experiences of racism in various contexts, such as work, housing, and public spaces. (stanford.edu)
  • Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report Number 11-1. (nationalacademies.org)
  • S econd food security measurement and research conference, volume II: Papers . (nationalacademies.org)
  • Furthermore, there is limited research to sustain the relationship between urban and rural lifestyles in this region and their influence on the incidence of obesity. (fromemuseum.org)
  • The scope of obesity research is extensive given the current affection within international communities. (fromemuseum.org)
  • Providing evidence to inform a strategy for obesity combat, this research will offer a gateway for further research and encourage local awareness and implementation of control measures. (fromemuseum.org)
  • However, international research utilising cross-sectional designs to investigate associations between retail food outlet proximity to schools and diet provides equivocal support for an effect. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Extensive research is dedicated to exploring the relationship between residents' diets and retail food environments around the home. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Studies have suggested that allergies, obesity and health problems related to screen time have become increasingly prevalent among children in recent years. (wikipedia.org)
  • But such a rapid development and the now wide use of nanoparticle (NP)-based products in the human food chain raise issues for human health ( 3 ) and highlight the urgent need for a specific risk assessment. (frontiersin.org)
  • Some people claim they can tolerate the cognitive effects of routine sleep deprivation," said Eve Van Cauter, professor of medicine and director of the Sleep Metabolism and Health Center at the University of Chicago, a lead researcher on the study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine last fall. (truebluevision.ca)
  • 12. The Responsibility Deal taps into the potential for businesses to improve public health through their influence over food, physical activity, alcohol, and health in the workplace. (who.int)
  • The Medical Model of "Obesity" and the Values Behind the Guise of Health. (philpapers.org)
  • Assumptions about obesity-e.g., its connection to ill health, its causes, etc.-are still prevalent today, and they make up what I call the medical model of fatness. (philpapers.org)
  • Food insufficiency, poverty, and health in U.S. pre-school and school-age children. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Today, obesity is one of the main concerns among health professionals as a result of its recent and rapid increase in prevalence worldwide. (fromemuseum.org)
  • The Gulf States (GCC) are the richest among the developing countries and as a result of the economic boom, obesity and overweight have become one of the main health problems in this part of the world (Musaiger 2004). (fromemuseum.org)
  • Obesity is a worldwide health problem. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It supports what dietitians have known for a long time, that feeding children on diets largely consisting of heavily processed foods which may also be high in fat, salt or sugar is not optimal for health. (akidjustlikeme.com)
  • The primary outcome measure was the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) at 6 months. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Obesity in Saudi Arabia is a rampant disease which has continued to escalate in frequency and size over past decades. (fromemuseum.org)
  • The issue of whether food additives can affect children s behavior has been controversial for decades. (akidjustlikeme.com)
  • Significant economic growth has had a negative impact on the Saudi life style, particularly in terms of diet habits and customs, where traditional food has been replaced by high fat, high sugar, fast food (Al-Othaimeen, 2007). (fromemuseum.org)
  • Intervention studies showed that advice to increase consumption of fruit and vegetables was related to weight loss, possibly through enhancing satiety and avoiding feelings of deprivation and hunger. (biomedcentral.com)
  • People should always dilute food-grade hydrogen peroxide with equal parts water. (com.ng)
  • Perinatal exposure to foodborne inorganic nanoparticles: A role in the susceptibility to food allergy? (frontiersin.org)
  • Obesity is a risk factor for both susceptibility to infections including postoperative infections and other nosocomial infections and the occurrence of a more severe disease course. (hrb.ie)
  • The resulting dysregulated intestinal homeostasis in the infant may significantly impede the induction of oral tolerance, a crucial process of immune unresponsiveness to food antigens. (frontiersin.org)
  • Bushnell et al13 reported that those who worked 8- or 10-hour night shifts had significantly higher obesity rates than those working 8 hours on the day shift. (cdc.gov)
  • Researchers looked at 495 women's sleep patterns, their daily quantity of food, and quality of food. (drarchik.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to determine energy drink consumption patterns among college students, prevalence and frequency of energy drink use for six situations, namely for insufficient sleep, to increase energy (in general), while studying, driving long periods of time, drinking with alcohol while partying, and to treat a hangover, and prevalence of adverse side effects and energy drink use dose effects among college energy drink users. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Household food security in the United States in 1995: Results from the Food Security Measurement Project. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The results provide some evidence that the local food environment around secondary schools may influence adolescent diet, though effects were small. (biomedcentral.com)
  • There has been debate about whether the bone density of male patients should be compared with that of normal young males (gender-specific) or with that of normal females, which results in different T-scores (0.5 to 1.0 SD units lower when normal male data are used) and therefore different frequencies of "osteoporosis" (defined as a T-score less than 22.5). (bcmj.org)
  • The implications of these results for the regulation of food additive use could be substantial, the researchers concluded. (akidjustlikeme.com)
  • The "pro-tolerogenic" antigen-loaded DC will migrate to draining mesenteric lymph nodes, where they will present the food protein-derived peptides to naive T cells and favour the induction of a subpopulation of T cells, namely regulatory T cells (Treg). (frontiersin.org)
  • Their further maturation and expansion will depend on food protein re-exposure. (frontiersin.org)
  • Certain artificial food colorings and other additives can worsen hyperactive behaviors in children aged 3 to 9, British researchers reported on Wednesday. (akidjustlikeme.com)
  • Although for the majority of situations assessed, users consumed one energy drink with a reported frequency of 1 - 4 days per month, many users consumed three or more when combining with alcohol while partying. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We obtained county-level food retail gap per capita, defined as the difference between county-level food demand and county-level food sales in 2008, from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, and BMI data from the 2007 North Carolina Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. (cdc.gov)
  • Food security is associated with increased risk of obesity in California women. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The local retail food environment around schools may act as a potential risk factor for adolescent diet. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Prevalence of physical activity and obesity in US counties, 2001-2011: a road map for action. (cdc.gov)
  • Rural residents may regularly travel to urban areas in neighboring counties to shop for food because of convenience along the route to work, better prices, wider selection, or one-stop shopping offered at discount "supercenters" (eg, Walmart) (11,12). (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: Pregnant women with overweight/obesity (N = 26) participating in the Healthy Mom Zone study, a theoretically-based behavioral intervention that adapted the intervention dosage over time to regulate GWG completed weekly point estimates of EI (back-calculation), PA (wrist-worn activity monitor), and REE (mobile metabolism device) from 14- to 28-weeks gestation. (bvsalud.org)
  • Alexandria, VA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Upon graduating from Leesburg High School in Leesburg, FL, Kelly chose to attend The University of Florida where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition with an emphasis in Dietetics. (studyres.com)
  • In August of 2005, Kelly moved to Auburn, AL where she enrolled into Auburn University's Graduate School and pursued a Master of Science Degree in Nutrition in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science under the direction of Dr. Sareen S. Gropper. (studyres.com)
  • Indeed, there is growing evidence that these inorganic agents, used as food additives in various products, as processing aids during food manufacturing or in food contact materials, can cross the placental barrier and reach the developing fetus. (frontiersin.org)
  • Stevenson s team, which has been studying the effects of food additives in children for years, made up two mixtures to test in one group of 3-year-olds and a second group of children aged 8 and 9. (akidjustlikeme.com)
  • They did not specify what foods might include the additives. (akidjustlikeme.com)
  • We have found an adverse effect of food additives on the hyperactive behavior of 3-year-old and 8/9-year-old children, they wrote. (akidjustlikeme.com)
  • In a parallel parent questionnaire, data on height and weight of the children were collected. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Trial data on team activity, demographics and anthropometric outcome data were extracted to determine frequency of daily goal completion by teams throughout the competition and to describe participant characteristics. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Often the analysis involves cross-sectional data about retail food outlets in a neighbourhood, with distance measured from a population centre to each store using road networks in a Geographic Information System (GIS). (biomedcentral.com)
  • To examine county-level associations between BMI and percentage of rural residents, commute times, and food retail gap per capita, we used Pearson correlation coefficients. (cdc.gov)
  • The percentage of rural residents was positively correlated with commute times, food retail gaps, and county-level BMI. (cdc.gov)
  • The term "disordered eating" is used in reference to behaviors around food that are disordered but may not have been evaluated for or are not severe enough to reach a formal diagnosis. (todaysdietitian.com)
  • The establishment of oral tolerance is dependent on the controlled uptake of food proteins through the intestinal epithelial barrier and its delivery to local dendritic cells (DC) that matured in the intestinal pro-tolerogenic environment. (frontiersin.org)
  • Area-level factors that contribute to this disparity are not well understood, but one underlying mechanism may be the food environment. (cdc.gov)
  • Does the local food environment around schools affect diet? (biomedcentral.com)
  • First, how has the local retail food environment around secondary schools changed over time and second, is this change associated with change in diet of students at these schools? (biomedcentral.com)
  • Network analysis in a Geographic Information System (GIS) ascertained the number, minimum and median distances to food outlets within 400 m and 800 m of the school location. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The locations of retail food outlets and schools in 2001 and 2005 were geo-coded in three London boroughs. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Adjusted associations between distance from school to food retail outlets, counts of outlets near schools and diet scores were assessed using longitudinal (2001-2005 n=757) approaches. (biomedcentral.com)
  • One possible strategy to prevent unnecessary weight gain in youth is promotion of fruit and vegetable consumption, since most fruits and vegetables are foods with low energy density [ 3 - 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Tests on more than 300 children showed significant differences in their behavior when they drank fruit drinks spiked with a mixture of food colorings and preservatives, Jim Stevenson and colleagues at the University of Southampton said. (akidjustlikeme.com)
  • There are racial differences in the frequency of hip fractures. (bcmj.org)
  • Individual-level BMI was positively associated with county-level commute times and food retail gaps. (cdc.gov)