The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
Vietnam saw drop in malnutrition among kids under five years old nationwide in 2014, said the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) under Vietnam's Ministry of Health on Monday. According to information released by NIN, the rate of Vietnamese kids in underweight malnutrition dropped from 15.3 percent in 2013 to 14.5 …
Indians At Risk; Docs Advise Dietary Changes To Reduce Threat Nearly everyone knows that obesity is a major cause of cardiovascular problems and diabetes. But what many do not know is that extra kilos can also lead to that emperor of maladies -cancer. Obesity is now pandemic and researchers have …
This study aimed to use primary care electronic health records to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in 2–15-year-old children in England and compare trends over the last two decades.
The Pacific Islands, east of Australia, top the list of countries with the highest percentage of their populations obese Experts have blamed the soaring obesity rates on nations colonising the islands and introducing Western diets You might think the U.S. is the most obese nation in the world - but …
An urgent need exists to identify modifiable dietary risk factors for obesity in African-Americans. Human observations since the 1980’s of lower levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D25(OH)D in obese than in nonobese individuals highlight a possible inverse relation between vitamin D and obesity.
Urgent government action is needed to meet global targets to reduce the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and prevent the annual toll of 16 million people dying prematurely – before the age of 70 – from heart and lung diseases, stroke, cancer and diabetes, according to a new WHO report. …
The search for effective treatments for obesity and its comorbidities is of prime importance. We previously identified IKK-ε and TBK1 as promising therapeutic targets for the treatment of obesity and associated insulin resistance. Here we show that acute inhibition of IKK-ε and TBK1 with amlexanox treatment increases cAMP levels in …
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved diabetes drug Liraglutide (Saxenda, Novo Nordisk) for the treatment of obesity. Liraglutide, was first approved in 2010 as a treatment for type 2 diabetes and is marketed for that indication as Victoza. Liraglutide will be marketed as Saxenda for the weight …
Green spaces have been associated with both health benefits and risks in children; however, available evidence simultaneously investigating these conflicting influences, especially in association with different types of greenness, is scarce. The researchers aimed to simultaneously evaluate health benefits and risks associated with different types of greenness in children, in …
Humans have coevolved with their microbes over thousands of years, but this relationship, is now being dramatically affected by shifts in the collective human microbiome resulting from changes in the environment and societal norms. Resulting perturbations of intestinal host-microbe interactions can lead to miscues and altered host responses that increase …
From a biomedical perspective, non-communicable disease (NCD) is not a new problem, particularly in the global North. However, awareness of the increasing burden from these conditions in low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs;) has only recently emerged in the arena of development policy and practice. In September 2011, the United Nations …
Over the past century, socioenvironmental evolution (eg, reduced pathogenic load, decreased physical activity, and improved nutrition) led to cumulative increments in maternal energy resources (ie, body mass and adiposity) and decrements in energy expenditure and metabolic control. These decrements reduced the competition between maternal and fetal energy demands and increased …
PUNE: Obesity has emerged as a major cause of type 2 diabetes with over 80% adult diabetics in India being overweight. But the Diabetes Prevention Program Study of USA suggests that simple diet control and exercise can help prevent the incidence of diabetes by about 58%. Doctors suggest that many …
Lung cancer survival rates are worse in every part of the UK than in most of Europe and other wealthy countries, while breast cancer survival is now up with the best, according to a study comparing outcomes around the world. The Concord-2 study studied data from 67 countries relating to …
IT HAS become a cliché to call obesity a big problem for a reason: more than 2.1 billion people, or nearly 30% of the global population, are overweight or obese. Excess weight leads to about 5% of worldwide deaths. On current trends, almost half of the world’s adults will be …
The worldwide cost of obesity is about the same as smoking or armed conflict and greater than both alcoholism and climate change, research has suggested. The McKinsey Global Institute said it cost £1.3tn, or 2.8% of annual economic activity - it cost the UK £47bn. Some 2.1bn people - about …
A new report shows that obesity levels are continuing to soar. Researchers from the McKinsey Global Institute found that close to 30 percent of the world's population, or about 2 billion people worldwide are overweight or obese, costing more than $2 trillion in medical bills and other costs; that's around …
In September 2009, middle and secondary schools in England were required to comply with food and nutrient-based standards for school food. The researchers examined the impact of this policy change on children’s lunchtime and total dietary intake.They undertook repeat cross-sectional surveys in six Northumberland middle schools in 1999–2000 and 2009–10. …
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has today published a comprehensive pocketbook of nutrition-related data covering all regions of the world ahead of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) taking place in Rome this week. Food and Nutrition in Numbers- a pocket-seized compendium dedicated to the state …
