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It suggests all children need to be evaluated by blood metabolic biomarkers too
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Women and children line up to receive free meals from a non-government organisation during a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Bengaluru.
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It suggests all children need to be evaluated by blood metabolic biomarkers too
:A recent paper by researchers from St John’s Medical College and Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research has found that, in India, metabolic indicators of obesity (abnormal blood sugar or blood lipids) are seen well before the child becomes obviously overweight by anthropometry.
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As a woman with many roles mother, wife, and daughter we always want to make sure our immediate family members’ health is at its best. The Department of Science and Technology’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) has released data that one out of two Filipino adults have borderline to high cholesterol levels, justifying our roles as the health watcher of the house.
Alarming numbers
According to the eighth National Nutrition Survey, there is an increase from 28 percent in 2003 to 47.2 percent in 2013 of Filipinos above 20 years old with the risk of suffering from cardiovascular diseases. We know how much Filipinos love to eat, so this particular statistic wasn’t as surprising but it is alarming.