A comparison of snack serving sizes to USDA guidelines in healthy weight and overweight minority preschool children enrolled in Head Start
ConclusionsFindings suggest that regardless of weight status low-income minority preschool children are consuming larger serving sizes when offered less healthy versus healthier snack foods. Continued efforts should be made to provide healthful snack foods at preschool settings to prevent obesity and promote healthier food habits. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - August 26, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Adipocyte nuclei captured from VAT and SAT
Conclusions
The MA-INTACT mouse enables a simple way to perform cell-type specific analysis of highly purified mature adipocyte nuclei from VAT and SAT and increases the statistical significance of data collected on adipocytes. Isolated VAT and SAT adipocyte nuclei expressed distinct patterns of transcripts encoding chromatin remodeling factors and proteins relevant to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and thermogenesis. The MA-INTACT mouse is an useful model to test the impact of caloric intake, dietary nutrients, exercise, and pharmaceuticals on the epigenome-induced health risks of obesity. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - July 18, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
In-school versus out-of-school sedentary behavior patterns in U.S. children
Conclusions
Given that children appear to be more sedentary during the weekend, where more opportunities to be physically active with the whole family can easily be implemented, future interventions should focus on time periods outside of school hours in order to decrease sedentary behavior and increase light physical activity in particular. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - July 12, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Correlation of adiposity indices with cardiovascular disease risk factors in healthy adults of Singapore: a cross-sectional study
Conclusion
Measurement of PBF does not outperform the simple anthropometric measurements of obesity, i.e. BAI, WC, and WHR, in the prediction of CVD risk factors in healthy Asian adults. While measures of central adiposity (WC and WHR) tend to show stronger associations with CVD risk factors in males, measures of general adiposity (BAI) seems to be the best predictor in females. The gender differences in the association between adiposity indices and CVD risk factors may relate to different body fat distribution in males and females living in Singapore. These results may find further clinical utility t...
Source: BMC Obesity - July 6, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Body weight perception among Sri Lankan cardiac patients
Conclusions
Significant body size misperceptions were noted in this group of cardiac patients. The disparity of perception was seen increasingly with increasing BMI. More than two thirds of overweight and more than half of obese patients believed themselves to have normal or less than normal weight. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - July 3, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
No sweat: African American adolescent girls ’ opinions of hairstyle choices and physical activity
Conclusions < /h3 > < p class= " a-plus-plus " > A preference for straight hair may contribute to AAA girls avoiding certain activities due to concerns about sweat affecting their hair. Furthermore, EI and hairstyle choice appear to be associated with levels of PA for some participants. Efforts to increase AAA girls ’ PA may benefit from approaches that address hairstyle choices and EI. < /p > < /span > (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - June 30, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
No sweat: African American adolescent girls’ opinions of hairstyle choices and physical activity
Conclusions
A preference for straight hair may contribute to AAA girls avoiding certain activities due to concerns about sweat affecting their hair. Furthermore, EI and hairstyle choice appear to be associated with levels of PA for some participants. Efforts to increase AAA girls’ PA may benefit from approaches that address hairstyle choices and EI. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - June 30, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Indigenous obesity in the news: a media analysis of news representation of obesity in Australia ’s Indigenous population
Conclusion < /h3 > < p class= " a-plus-plus " > This study provides a starting point for an important area of research that needs further investigation. The findings highlight the importance of alternative news media outlets, such as The Koori Mail, and that these should be developed to enhance the quality and diversity of media coverage. Media organisations can actively contribute to improving Indigenous health through raising awareness, evidence-based balanced reporting, and development of closer ties with Indigenous health workers. < /p > < /span > (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - June 22, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Indigenous obesity in the news: a media analysis of news representation of obesity in Australia’s Indigenous population
Conclusion
This study provides a starting point for an important area of research that needs further investigation. The findings highlight the importance of alternative news media outlets, such as The Koori Mail, and that these should be developed to enhance the quality and diversity of media coverage. Media organisations can actively contribute to improving Indigenous health through raising awareness, evidence-based balanced reporting, and development of closer ties with Indigenous health workers. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - June 22, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Hormonal regulatory mechanisms in obese children and adolescents after previous weight reduction with a lifestyle intervention: maintain - paediatric part - a RCT from 2009–15
Discussion
Weight maintenance after induced weight loss is one of the most important therapeutic challenges as long as most patients fail to maintain their weight loss. MAINTAIN is the first paediatric RCT addressing in parallel to a RCT in obese adults the course of weight regain after induced weight loss and is embedded in an experimental research consortium in order to also address several molecular mechanisms of weight regain.
Trial registration
ClinicalTrials NCT00850629, first registration 17 February 2009, ver...
Source: BMC Obesity - June 9, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Maternal obesity (Class I-III), gestational weight gain and maternal leptin levels during and after pregnancy: a prospective cohort study
Conclusions
Plasma leptin levels during and after pregnancy were associated with obesity class but not with degree of gestational weight gain. These results are in concordance with epidemiological findings where the risk of obstetric complications increases with increased maternal obesity class. The effect on obstetric outcome by degree of gestational weight gain is less pronounced than the adverse effects associated with maternal obesity. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - May 19, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Body composition and ankle-brachial index in Ghanaians with asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease in a tertiary hospital
Conclusion
In indigenous Ghanaians in our study, PAD participants had higher BMI and waist circumference than non-PAD participants. Also, halving BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2 was associated with twofold increase in the odds of PAD. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - May 12, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
The Pro12Ala polymorphism in the PPAR- γ2 gene is not associated to obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Cameroonian population
Conclusion < /h3 > < p class= " a-plus-plus " > < em class= " a-plus-plus " > PPAR- γ2 Pro12Ala < /em > gene polymorphism may not be associated with obesity and T2DM. These results suggest that, < em class= " a-plus-plus " > PPAR- γ2 < /em > is unlikely a major gene for obesity or T2DM in the study population. < /p > < /span > (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - May 11, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
The Pro12Ala polymorphism in the PPAR-γ2 gene is not associated to obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Cameroonian population
Conclusion
PPAR-γ2 Pro12Ala gene polymorphism may not be associated with obesity and T2DM. These results suggest that, PPAR-γ2 is unlikely a major gene for obesity or T2DM in the study population. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - May 11, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Neighbourhood socioeconomic context, individual socioeconomic position, and overweight in young children: a multilevel study in a large German city
Conclusions
Whereas individual determinants were the main drivers in explaining between neighbourhood variance, neighbourhood SEP additionally explained differences in overweight between neighbourhoods. Thus, considering neighbourhood context in intervention planning could result in more effective strategies compared to measures only focusing on individual determinants of overweight. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - May 5, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
