Childhood obesity, defined as an age-adjusted and sex-adjusted body-mass index (BMI; the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) in the 95th percentile or higher ...

Any dietary pattern that decreases or cuts out added sugar is likely to reduce obesity and benefit health, especially among people who regularly consume high amounts of added sugar. However ...

Sep. 18, 2024 — A study more closely links obesity to dementia, finding that leptin, a hormone that helps maintain normal body weight, is associated with better signal-transmitting brain white ...

mainly because of childhood obesity. Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes. About 1 in 10 people in the U.S. have type 2. Nearly 1 in 3 have prediabetes, meaning their blood sugar (or blood ...

17, 2024 — Symptoms for patients with the gastrointestinal disease IBS improved as much by eating less sugar ... lasting impacts. A diet and physical activity intervention in childhood and ...

However, the majority of studies so far haven't found a connection, and most in the medical industry maintain there is no known link between sugar and hyperactivity. Still, many concerned parents ...

Allulose does not appear to raise blood sugar or insulin levels. In addition, early research suggests that allulose has anti-inflammatory properties and may help prevent obesity and reduce the ...

For the first time in 15 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics last year put forward new clinical guidelines for addressing obesity in children. The guidelines shifted the former standard of ...

The average starting BMI was 31, above the threshold for childhood ... tied to obesity. In kids who received placebo, 9% met that mark. Lower measures of blood pressure and blood sugar were ...

The CDC defines obesity as having a body mass index (BMI) of at least 30, and a shocking 20% of Americans meet that criteria, with the Midwest and the South reporting the highest levels of weight.