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More than 20 percent of U.S. adolescents are classified as obese. Obesity rates are higher among low-income children, and the rates are highest among Hispanic and African American children ages 12 to 19. Children exposed to violence are at greater risk for obesity, but exactly how that occurs is not well understood, the researchers said. "Teens provided an unique window into their lives through daily mobile-phone reports and streaming data on sleep and activity from their wearable devices," said Candice Odgers, a professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy and senior author of the study. "Teens' constant connectivity allowed us to identify same-day correlates of violence exposure versus simply documenting that children exposed to violence are more likely to be obese." The study appears online in the journal  Social Science & Medicine . Researchers collected data via cellphone multiple times per day for 30 days from an at-risk group of teens ...

Drawing a parallel to the medical community's approach to common mental illnesses, researchers suggest that shifting physicians' perspective from individual responsibility to a treatable condition may finally slow decades of rising obesity rates. "We know there are economic, cultural, political and environmental elements causing this problem, yet our approach to treatment puts sole responsibility on the patient's behavior," says Michael Clearfield, DO, Dean of Touro University's College of Osteopathic Medicine. "It's not unlike the way we treated depression 40 years ago. Only, instead of telling people to 'get over it', we say, 'just eat right and exercise.'" The curriculum, which launched in 2012, measures medical students' attitudes on the Fat Phobia Scale, which identifies biased beliefs in stereotypes , such as obese people are "lazy" and have "poor self-control." The students then received instr...

Previous research has shown that women who are overweight, obese or suffer diabetes during pregnancy have an increased risk of giving birth to a baby that experiences lung problems both at birth and later during infancy and childhood. The team of researchers at the University of South Australia found that the offspring at risk had more immature lungs compared to offspring of mothers with normal weight. Lungs produce a substance called surfactant that serves two purposes: it keeps the airway surfaces from sticking together, and also fights bacteria and viruses. Immature lungs produce less surfactant meaning that the lungs cannot perform their normal functions. The researchers either fed the pregnant sheep a normal diet or a diet that provided 55% more energy, simulating an over-nutrition and obesity model. This diet was fed during the last trimester of pregnancy which is when the most critical stage of lung development happens. They looked at the lungs of the lambs before birth a...

Individuals who have been sleeping on common round six hours an evening had a waist measurement that was 3cm larger than people who have been getting 9 hours of sleep an evening. Credit score: © amenic181 / Fotolia Adults within the UK who've poor sleep patterns usually tend to be chubby and overweight and have poorer metabolic well being, in keeping with a brand new research. The findings confirmed that individuals who have been sleeping on common round six hours an evening had a waist measurement that was 3cm larger than people who have been getting 9 hours of sleep an evening. And shorter sleepers have been heavier too. The outcomes strengthen the proof that inadequate sleep might contribute to the event of metabolic ailments equivalent to diabetes -- main well being challenges dealing with the NHS. The research -- led by Dr Laura Hardie, Reader in Molecular Epidemiology on the College of Leeds -- not solely seemed on the hyperlinks between sleep perio...

Obesity -- a major risk factor for many diseases including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, liver disease and several cancers -- is at epidemic levels in Australia. Researchers from the Metabolic Disease and Obesity Program have shown in laboratory models that feeding controls the 'browning' of fat, that is, the conversion of white fat, which stores energy, into brown fat, which expends it. Fat in the human body is stored in specialised cells called adipocytes, which can change from white to brown states and back again. Their study, published in  Cell Metabolism  today, shows that after a meal the brain responds to circulating insulin, which is increased after a rise in blood glucose. The brain then sends signals to promote the browning of fat to expend energy. By contrast, after a fast, the brain instructs these browned adipocytes to once more convert into white adipocytes, storing energy. These processes help prevent both excess weight gain and excess weight ...

The new finding contributes to a fuller understanding of the fundamental biology that underlies common metabolic diseases related to obesity, such as type 2 diabetes, fatt y liver disease, and heart failure, and could lead to new insights on how to better treat such diseases. The study will be published online August 1, 2017 in  Cell Metabolism . "We are excited about these findings -- they solve a mystery and show how fat synthesis protects cells from dysfunction and disease," said Robert Farese, Jr., professor of genetics and complex diseases at Harvard Chan School. Lead author of the study was Harvard Chan research fellow Chandramohan Chitraju. The researchers looked at what happens to triglycerides (a type of fat) in cells during lipolysis, the process through which the triglycerides are broken down into fatty acids and transported for energy use to other tissues in the body. For decades, scientists have wondered why some triglycerides, after being broken down ...

People who find themselves of regular weight however metabolically unhealthy have a greater than three-fold increased threat of mortality and/or cardiovascular occasions. Credit score: IDM In comparison with people who find themselves of regular weight and metabolically wholesome, topics who're of regular weight however metabolically unhealthy (~20% of regular weight adults) have a greater than three-fold increased threat of mortality and/or cardiovascular occasions . This threat can also be increased than that of metabolically wholesome overweight topics. Norbert Stefan, Fritz Schick and Hans-Ulrich Häring have now addressed traits figuring out metabolic well being in lean, chubby and overweight individuals, confirmed decreased accumulation of fats within the decrease physique places lean individuals in danger and highlighted implications of their ...

The findings, published online today in the journal  Menopause , show that black women who put on fat around their midsection during midlife are more likely to accumulate fat around their hearts, whereas white women's risk of fatty hearts is higher when they add weight all over. The results echo the findings of a Pitt Public Health study three years ago in men. "Excess fat around the heart, in both men and women, is an evolving risk factor for heart disease. But how can clinicians see it at a regular physical? They can't without a special heart scan," said senior author Samar El Khoudary, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health. "This study, coupled with our previous study in men, gives doctors another tool to evaluate their patients and get a better sense of their heart disease risk. It also may lead to suggestions for lifestyle modifications to help patients lessen that risk." El Khoudary and her team evaluated clini...

PCI is a non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowing of the coronary arteries, improving blood flow to the heart. This study, funded by UHNM Charity, looked at data from all PCI procedures undertaken in the UK between 2005 and 2013. This research found that the BMI of patients undergoing PCI procedures has increased over time. It was also found that those patients with a higher BMI, specifically overweight patients, have far fewer complications and better clinical outcomes compared to either normal weight or underweight patients. The link between higher BMI and better clinical outcomes supports the obesity paradox. This is a medical theory whereby overweight patients tend to have better outcomes for a number of different cardiovascular conditions than either patients of a 'normal' weight or underweight patients. Prof Mamas Mamas, Consultant Cardiologist at UHNM and Professor of Cardiology at Keele University, led this research, alongside Dr Eric Holroyd, Consulta...

With illness, whenever you lower autophagy the illness course of is exacerbated and whenever you improve it you get the alternative impact. Aggregation of polyglutamine growth protein is a trademark of Huntington's illness and different neurodegenerative illnesses. The image exhibits that there are extra aggregates of inexperienced fluorescence protein-labelled polyglutamine growth protein in autophagy poor worms (proper) in comparison with regular animals (left). Credit score: Florida Atlantic College Limiting how a lot you eat with out ravenous has been proven to robustly prolong lifespan in additional than 20 species of animals together with primates. How this works continues to be unclear. In a brand new examine revealed in  PLOS Genetics , neuroscientists from Florida Atlantic College present that it isn't simply what or how a lot you eat...