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The neighborhoods in which children and adolescents live and spend their time play a role in whether or not they eat a healthy diet, get enough exercise or become obese, concludes a collection of studies in a special theme issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Each of the six studies uses the latest concepts and methods in geographic information systems (GIS)-based research to determine how the geographic location affects physical health. A study titled "Spatial...
University of Illinois researchers have surveyed more than 3,500 college students, finding more than a third of them reported their weight inaccurately. Of the students surveyed, overweight and obese men were most likely to guess low on their weight. According to Margarita Teran-Garcia, a University of Illinois professor of food science and human nutrition, accepting a weight problem is half of the battle. “This misperception is important because the first step in dealing with a...
Common childhood obesity may now be considered genetic. A researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia led the study, considered to be the largest of its kind, to determine the origins of this pediatric condition. According to his research, there are at least two new genetic variations responsible for increasing the risk of common childhood obesity. Lead investigator and associate director of the Center for Applied Genomics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Struan F....
--Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Scientist Leads Largest-Ever Genome-Wide Study of this Pediatric Condition-- PHILADELPHIA, April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Genetics researchers have identified at least two new gene variants that increase the risk of common childhood obesity. "This is the largest-ever genome-wide study of common childhood obesity, in contrast to previous studies that have focused on more extreme forms of obesity primarily connected with rare disease...
By Fernanda Barros, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It is rapidly becoming the number one health problem in the U.S. and it is now the most common chronic illness in childhood. Obesity is a complex and potentially devastating condition, particularly if its onset is in early childhood. There are significant environmental and behavioral factors involved in the causes of obesity but some of us may carry it in our genes! In the most recent National Health and Nutrition...
Obesity is increasing worldwide in adults and children and is currently viewed by many as one of the most serious threats to public health. It is likely that solutions to the obesity pandemic will require changes in public policy and that scientific insight into obesity will be invaluable for guiding those changes. Now, a new review of human brain imaging studies published by Cell Press in the journal Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism suggests that a major reason for the dramatic...
The brains of people with anorexia and obesity are wired differently, according to new research. Neuroscientists for the first time have found that how our brains respond to food differs across a spectrum of eating behaviors – from extreme overeating to food deprivation. This study is one of several new approaches to help better understand and ultimately treat eating disorders and obesity. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. And more than two-thirds of...
Leptin blood test can correct BMI errors: Press release from PLoS ONE The scope of the obesity epidemic in the United States has been greatly underestimated, according to a study published Apr. 2 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Researchers found that the Body Mass Index (BMI) substantially under-diagnoses obesity when compared to the Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scan, a direct simultaneous measure of body fat, muscle mass, and bone density. The disparity is particularly...
By Rhonda Craig, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --Every year an estimated six million U.S. hospitalizations are accompanied by hyperglycemia, a condition that occurs when your blood sugar is too high. While the condition is often associated with diabetes; as many as 1.5 million hospitalized patients with significant hyperglycemia have no history of diabetes. Controlling blood sugar levels in the hospital can be a life or death matter. Hyperglycemia is a...
New research in the FASEB Journal suggests that epigenetic changes in gene structure lead to higher incidents of obesity and diabetes for mothers with poor nutrition at the time of conception If you're expecting, this might make you feel a little better about reaching for that pint of ice cream: New research published online in the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests that twins, and babies of mothers who diet around the time of conception and in early pregnancy, may have an...
