Tag: Obesity

Relationship of soft drink consumption to global overweight, obesity, and diabetes: a cross-national analysis of 75 countries

Featured Database

Author: Basu, Sanjay; McKee, Martin; Galea, Gauden; Stuckler, David Description: OBJECTIVES: We estimated the relationship between soft drink consumption and obesity and diabetes worldwide. METHODS: We used multivariate linear regression to estimate the association between soft drink consumption and overweight, obesity, and diabetes prevalence in 75 countries, controlling for other foods (cereals, meats, fruits and vegetables, oils, and total calories), income, urbanization, and aging. Data were obtained from the Euromonitor Global Market Information Database, the World Health Organization, and the International Diabetes Federation. Bottled water consumption, which increased with per-capita…

See more and a link to full text

Diet-induced obesity in female mice leads to offspring hyperphagia, adiposity, hypertension, and insulin resistance: a novel murine model of developmental programming

Featured Database

Author: Samuelsson, Anne-Maj; Matthews, Phillippa A.; Argenton, Marco; Christie, Michael R.; McConnell, Josie M.; Jansen, Eugene H. J. M.; Piersma, Aldert H.; Ozanne, Susan E.; Twinn, Denise Fernandez; Remacle, Claude; Rowlerson, Anthea; Poston, Lucilla; Taylor, Paul D. Description: Maternal obesity is increasingly prevalent and may affect the long-term health of the child. We investigated the effects of maternal diet-induced obesity in mice on offspring metabolic and cardiovascular function. Female C57BL/6J mice were fed either a standard chow (3% fat, 7% sugar) or a palatable obesogenic diet (16% fat, 33% sugar)…

See more and a link to full text

Microbes and Diet-Induced Obesity: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control

Student Database

Author: Turnbaugh, P.J. Description: Here I revisit our early experiments published in Cell Host & Microbe (Turnbaugh et al., 2008) showing that a diet rich in fat and simple sugars alters the gut microbiome in a manner that contributes to host adiposity, and reflect upon the remarkable advances and remaining challenges in this field. Subject headings: Animals; Cytosol/chemistry; Diet/adverse effects/methods; Gastrointestinal Microbiome/drug effects; Humans; Obesity; cellular memory; diet-induced obesity; gut microbiome; high-fat and high-sugar diets; metabolic disease; metagenomics; metatranscriptomics; microbial dynamics; multi-omics; nutrition Publication year: 2017 Journal or book title:…

See more and a link to full text
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.