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New health data suggest that young people in America will live shortened, poor-quality lives due to increasing rates of obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure. The researchers said the ever-escalating rate of health risks in young people should be a “call-to-action” and pointed to sedentary lifestyles contributing to the problems.
More than half the world’s population will be overweight or have obesity by 2035 if current trends continue, with obesity rising at alarming rates among children and adolescents, a new report from the World Obesity Federation says.
Genetics and lifestyle aside, researchers are investigating whether environmental influences – such as nutrition and stress – on the developing brain of the young set the lifetime risk.
New study shows that Suffolk county is in the top 5 New York counties that have fared best over the past 10 years.
Virginia Tech scientists are taking a deep dive into the brain chemistry that drives cravings for unhealthy fatty foods. Their goal: To find out if the nation’s ever-expanding waistline has as much to do with that’s in our heads as what we put into our bellies.