Posts Tagged 'Obesity'

The good fat

Contributed by Sergio Perez-Diaz

Obesity is defined as an excess of body fat tissue. Adipose tissue (white adipose tissue) is the organ whose main function is to store the overflow of energy from the diet. The body mass index (BMI) is a quick formula to know when an individual person is obese, being 25 kg/m2 and 30 kg/m2 the overweight and obesity thresholds, respectively..

Anatomically, the white adipose tissue is present in three big ...

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Estimation of Risk for Child or Adolescent Obesity at Birth

By analyzing data from 4,000 children born in Finland in 1986, researchers created a formula that accurately predicts the likelihood of a baby developing obesity during childhood. Importantly, the predictive accuracy of the models did not decline from childhood to adolescence, suggesting that the association between the traditional risk factors and obesity is stable until early adulthood. When the performance of genetics in predicting early obesity phenotypes was explored, with the largest list of obesity-SNPs ever used, it showed only a ...More...

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JAMA>Opportunities to Reduce Childhood Hunger and Obesity Restructuring the Food Stamp Program

Opportunities to Reduce Childhood Hunger and Obesity Restructuring the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (the Food Stamp Program) David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD; Susan J. Blumenthal, MD, MPA; Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH JAMA. 2012;308(24):2567-2568. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.45420. Childhood is a time of substantial nutritional needs. However, many children in low-income families do not consume adequate amounts of nutritious foods for optimal physical development, cognitive performance, and psychological well-being. The pending reauthorization of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program), ...More...

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