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| Obesity Highest In Children From Lower Income Areas School children from lower socioeconomic areas are one-and-a-half times more likely to be overweight or obese compared with children living in wealthier areas, a new study has found. The study of primary school-aged children also found almost one in three children aged six to 12 years are either overweight or obese. Study author Rachel Sutherland said: 'Of huge concern was that by age six and seven, around 30 per cent of these kids were already overweight or obese. medicalnewstoday.com |
Study Shows Regular Exercise Might Prevent Onset Of Diabetes In Black Women Taking a brisk walk several times a week for exercise appears to reduce black women's risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Reuters Health reports. Few studies have been conducted on the benefits of exercise among black women, according to Reuters. medicalnewstoday.com |
Health Disparities Among Minority Populations Getting Worse Despite government efforts to address disparities in the past decade, beginning with President Clinton's 1998 Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Initiative, there has been very little progress. African-Americans have more disease, disability, and early death than Caucasians(1). The statistics are alarming: -- African-Americans are 1.6 times more likely to have diabetes than non-Latino Caucasians. medicalnewstoday.com |
Mom's Weight During Pregnancy Affects Her Daughter's Risk Of Being Obese A mother's weight and the amount she gains during pregnancy both impact her daughter's risk of obesity decades later, according to a new study by Alison Stuebe, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. "The findings are especially important because of the growing epidemic of obesity in women," Stuebe says. medicalnewstoday.com |
Self-Esteem In Overweight And Underweight Women Affected By Media Exposure Overweight women's self-esteem plummets when they view photographs of models of any size, according to a new study in Journal of Consumer Research. And underweight women's esteem increases, regardless of models' size. medicalnewstoday.com |