Obesity risk News

Roughly one in five kids and teens in Europe are overweight or obese, according to a 2017 World Health Organization study, the authors note.

Obesity was defined by body mass index (BMI), abdominal obesity, and a higher body fat percentage, with the team collecting measurements on the participants’ body fat composition and information on lifestyle factors at the beginning of the study.

Parents, take note! Placing TV sets in your children's room may put them at significantly higher risk of being overweight in later life.

Those children with greater emotional dysregulation were more likely to be obese later, researchers said.

Those whose family meals were all home-cooked also had lower odds of obesity than other adults who ate some or no home-cooked meals.

Although caesarean section deliveries are a necessary lifesaving procedure in many cases, they also include known risks to mothers and newborns.

According to researchers, grapes may also help counter the negative effects of a high fat diet, including heart disease, hypertension and diabetes.

Adult male mice exposed to lead during the gestation period and infancy stages were 11 percent larger than those not exposed.   

The association between standing and metabolic risk was assessed via metabolic syndrome, a clustering of risk factors that increase the risk for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.

The researchers identified an area of the gene where a single change reduced BDNF levels in the hypothalamus, a key area that controls eating and body weight.

HMOs, a natural component of breast milk, are known to play a role in helping to develop the infant immune system.