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Predicting obesity in young adulthood from childhood and parental obesity
R Obert C. W Hitaker,J Effrey,A. W Right,M Argaret,S. P Epe,K Risty D. S Eidel,W Illiam H. D Ietz +6 more
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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 692 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Parental obesity & Young adult.read more
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Assessment of excess skin and outcome of body contouring surgery in post bariatric patients
TL;DR: Most of the post bariatric patients seem to suffer greatly from excess skin independent of sex or age, and a majority request body contouring surgery at several body sites.
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Preventing obesity among adolescent boys: The fitness improvement and lifestyle awareness (FILA Program) randomised controlled trial
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Nutritional knowledge of parents and the packed lunch they provide their children
TL;DR: The results from this study found that level of nutritional knowledge does not reflect the foods parents/guardians provide in packed lunches, and health promotion strategies are needed to target new areas in order to broaden nutritional awareness in the Irish adult population.
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Practising what we preach: A look at healthy active living policy and practice in Canadian paediatric hospitals
Ziad Solh,Kristi B. Adamo,Kristi B. Adamo,Jennica L Platt,Kathryn A. Ambler,Erin Boyd,Elaine Orrbine,Elizabeth A. Cummings,Claire LeBlanc +8 more
TL;DR: Canadian paediatric hospitals do not adequately promote healthy active living (HAL) for patients and staff, and the present study findings suggest further effort is required to create necessary healthy lifestyle modifications in these institutions through Canadian Paediatric Society/Canadian Association of Paediatrics Health Centres-led policy development and implementation initiatives.
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Perception of child obesity among the elites in bodija, ibadan, nigeria
TL;DR: Knowledge of the etiology of child obesity among the elites, awareness of therapeutic measures, efficacy of adopted measures and assumed solutions, and for more educational and preventive social policies to encourage positive nutritional and recreational habits are discussed.
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Increasing Prevalence of Overweight Among US Adults: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1960 to 1991
TL;DR: Observed trends in overweight prevalence and body mass index of the US adult population suggest that the Healthy People 2000 objective of reducing the prevalence of overweight US adults to no more than 20% may not be met by the year 2000.
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Long-term morbidity and mortality of overweight adolescents. A follow-up of the Harvard Growth Study of 1922 to 1935.
TL;DR: Overweight in adolescence predicted a broad range of adverse health effects that were independent of adult weight after 55 years of follow-up and was a more powerful predictor of these risks than overweight in adulthood.
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Body weight and mortality among women
JoAnn E. Manson,Walter C. Willett,Meir J. Stampfer,Graham A. Colditz,David J. Hunter,Susan E. Hankinson,Charles H. Hennekens,Frank E. Speizer +7 more
TL;DR: A J-shaped relation between body-mass index and overall mortality is observed and when women who had never smoked were examined separately, no increase in risk was observed among the leaner women, and a more direct relation between weight and mortality emerged.
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Do Obese Children Become Obese Adults? A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: Although the correlations between anthropometric measures of obesity in childhood and those in adulthood varied considerably among studies, the associations were consistently positive and the risk of adult obesity was at least twice as high for obese children as for nonobese children.