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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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Social inequalities in obesity and overweight in 11 OECD countries.
Marion Devaux,Franco Sassi +1 more
TL;DR: Large and persistent social inequalities in obesity and overweight by education level and socio-economic status exist in OECD countries, especially in women, and are consistently larger in women than in men.
Temporal variation in the
Denise Petrucci,Gigante I,Giovanny Vinícius,Luciana Monteiro Vasconcelos,Gustavo Velasquez,Meléndez +5 more
TL;DR: The results in this study confirmed the urgent need for effective prevention and control measures, as the increasing trend is occurring in a short period of time, especial-ly among youngsters.
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Using the family to combat childhood and adult obesity.
TL;DR: The importance of family behavior in the development of weight control and weight loss activities is emphasized in this article, with a focus on identifying measurable parameters of family-level weight control behaviors and ways to apply those parameters to help create new interventions that use the strengths of the family for achieving weight control goals.
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Energy Cost of Exergaming A Comparison of the Energy Cost of 6 Forms of Exergaming
Bruce W. Bailey,Kyle J. McInnis +1 more
TL;DR: Exergaming has the potential to increase physical activity and have a favorable influence on energy balance, and may be a viable alternative to traditional fitness activities for children of various BMI levels.
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The genetic and epigenetic basis of type 2 diabetes and obesity.
TL;DR: The evidence concerning the genetic contribution to individual risk of T2D and obesity, and the potential role of epigenetic mechanisms are discussed, 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.