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Warning labels, limits on sugar, salt in junk food can curb alarming rise
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): Recently during a multistakeholder session on childhood obesity in India, public health experts and doctors highlighted the need for urgent policy action to establish strong limits for salt, sugar, saturated fats and other harmful ingredients in packaged and
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Spanish-speaking children face higher obesity rate than english-speaking o
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 21 (ANI): The findings of the annual Endocrine Society's meeting suggests that Spanish as a family's primary language is a predictor of childhood obesity, regardless of ethnicity.
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Study: Late-childhood obesity linked with low-quality maternal diet during
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Dublin [Ireland], February 28 (ANI): A study led by researchers at University College Dublin, Ireland found that children of mothers who ate a higher quality diet, low in inflammation-associated foods, during pregnancy had a lower risk of obesity and lower body fat levels in late-childhood t
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Late-childhood obesity associated with low-quality maternal diet during pr
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 22 (ANI): The findings of a recent study suggest that an increased risk of obesity and excess body fat in children, especially during late-childhood can be associated with a low-quality diet during their mother's pregnancy, which is high in foods and food components
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Study finds changing diets, not less physical activity, may best explain c
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 18 (ANI): Variation in consumption of market-acquired foods outside of a traditional diet -- but not in total calories burned daily -- is reliably related to indigenous Amazonian children's body fat, according to a new study.
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Here's how probiotics may help manage childhood obesity
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 12 (ANI): Probiotics, known for their qualities to help in digestion, may help children and adolescents with obesity lose weight when taken alongside a calorie-controlled diet, suggest the findings of a new study.
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Probiotic supplements plus controlled diet may help manage childhood obesi
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], September 08 (ANI): Probiotic supplements, when taken alongside a calorie-controlled diet, may help children and adolescents with obesity lose weight, according to new research.
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Probiotics may help manage childhood obesity
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 7 (ANI): Probiotics may help children and adolescents with obesity lose weight when taken alongside a calorie-controlled diet, according to a recent study.
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Exposure to air pollution, smoking may lead to childhood obesity: Study
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Barcelona [Spain], June 28 (ANI): Exposure to smoking (both maternal smoking during pregnancy and second-hand smoking during childhood), air pollution, as well as certain characteristics of the built environment may be associated with a higher development of obesity in children, according to
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Study links air pollution, smoking with increase risk of childhood obesity
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Barcelona [Spain], June 24 (ANI): Air pollution, smoking, and certain characteristics of the built environment--such as high population density-- may play a role in the development of obesity in children, according to a recent study.
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COVID-19 lockdowns worsen obesity issues in children: Study
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New York [USA], June 7 (ANI): The coronavirus-induced lockdowns across the world have negatively impacted diet, sleep, and physical activity among children with obesity, a recent study explained.
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Study: COVID-19 lockdowns worsen childhood obesity
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [USA], June 4 (ANI): Lockdowns implemented across the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic have negatively impacted diet, sleep and physical activity among children with obesity, according University at Buffalo research.
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