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Filter by:The purpose was to investigate the consequences of pediatric overweight on the musculoskeletal system, postural control and proprioception, and to analyze prospectively the influence of ball games and nutrition counseling.
Obesity is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the industrialised world. Evidence is growing that early life nutrition can play a role in behavioural and cognitive problems in children and adolescents and is well documented that being overweight and obese during childhood can have short- and long-term physical and psycho-social health implications. This is an individually randomised trial to evaluate the efficacy of a family pediatrician-lead counselling intervention in reducing the BMI of over-weight children aged 4-7 years old. As secondary objectives the investigators evaluate the effect of the counselling on dietary behaviours and physical activity. The investigators targeted the intervention to overweight children, while obese children were referred to specialised care. The counselling targeted diet, physical activity, and sedentary behaviours.
About 17% of Chinese American preschool children are obese, compared to 12.4%of all children from age three to five years residing in the US; the prevalence of obesity is expected to increase in the future. Therefore, the proposed study will adapt a home-based and technology-centered childhood obesity prevention program for low-income Chinese American mothers of children three to five years old. The aims of the study are to assess the feasibility of the intervention and estimate the effect sizes on children's and mothers' outcomes.
The purpose of this study is to determine if Facebook can be used as a motivating factor for obese or overweight adolescents in a weight-reduction program.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics for certain doses of beloranib in obese subjects with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Poor feeding practices during infancy contribute to obesity risk because they interfere with infant feeding self-regulation and appropriate growth patterns as infants transition from human milk and/or formula-based diets to solid foods. The goal of the project is to provide an educational intervention that fosters appropriate maternal responsiveness, feeding styles, and feeding practices via infant-centered feeding.
This study is evaluating two approaches to improving the control blood sugar, and other risk factors for heart disease in overweight and obese adults with type 2 diabetes. The first approach has participants focus on weight loss via reducing food intake and increasing physical activity, while attending weekly group sessions led by trained community health workers for 12 months. The second approach has participants receive education on diabetes self management, which focuses primarily on glucose control, while attending monthly group sessions led by a study staff member for 12 months. We are recruiting persons with type 2 diabetes who live in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County area of North Carolina who are willing to attend sessions at the Downtown Health Plaza of Wake Forest Baptist Health. We will measure risk factors for heart disease (glucose control, blood pressure, blood cholesterol) and calculate the predicted risk of heart disease, and see which intervention lowers risk to a greater extent at 12 months, as well as 24 months.
The aim of this study is to examine the effects of soy fiber on body weight, body composition and blood lipids in overweight and obese participants.
The oxidation level of unsaturated fatty acid supplements commercialized in capsules could be a serious problem for manufacturers and a risk to consumers; health by ingesting substances whose effects are not desired. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of dietary supplements Omega-3 with different levels of oxidation in the lipid profile of women who consume these supplements. For this purpose the investigators have designed a single-blind, parallel-groups, randomized controlled trial. Finally, 52 women between 25 and 75 years old were randomly distributed into three groups: (1) took 2 capsules/day of one of the less oxidized oil (containing 300 mg EPA + DHA) and diet, (2) took 2 capsules/day of one of the most oxidized oil (containing 300 mg EPA + DHA) and diet and (3) no capsules, only received the diet. There was a 30 days follow-up . All groups followed a low cholesterol diet. Circulating glucose, total cholesterol, triglycerides and glutamic pyruvic transaminase were determined at the beginning and end of a 30 day period.
The increasing rate of obesity has become a major public health concern with national reports indicating 40% of African American adolescents are now overweight/obese. Little is known about effective weight loss interventions in ethnic minority adolescents. However, research has shown that ethnic minorities attend fewer intervention sessions, have higher attrition rates and lose less weight compared to Caucasians. Two fundamental problems related to this lack of progress are 1) lack of appropriate content of weight loss interventions for African American adolescents that integrate cultural issues, parenting skills, and motivational strategies for long-term change and, 2) poor dose of weight loss interventions because of participant fatigue and drop out. While previous weight loss studies for adolescents have been long lasting (12-25 weeks), our team developed a weight loss program that is a relatively brief (8-week) face-to-face intervention that integrates motivational (autonomy-support) and positive parenting skills (monitoring, social support, positive communication skills) for reducing z-BMI in overweight African American adolescents. Our team recently conducted a pilot study testing the feasibility of an 8-week on-line culturally tailored intervention, Thus, the goal of this project is to conduct a randomized controlled efficacy trial to address the problems with past studies by 1) making the face-to-face group intervention shorter, 2) using an on-line component to compliment the group-based intervention for increasing dose, and by 3) tailoring a motivational and parenting skills program directly to parents and adolescents skill levels and cultural background. 520 overweight African American adolescents and their parents will be recruited to participate. Phase I of the trial will test the efficacy of an 8-week face-to-face group randomized trial comparing motivational plus family-based weight loss (M+FWL) to a basic health (BH) education program on reducing z-BMI and improving diet and physical activity (PA) in overweight African American adolescents. In phase II of the trial participants will be re-randomized to either an 8-week on-line intervention or a control on-line program resulting in a 2 (M+FWL vs. BH group) x 2 (intervention vs. control on-line program) factorial design. A 6-month follow-up will examine whether adolescents in the 8-week M+FWL group plus 8-week on-line intervention program will show the greatest maintenance in reducing z-BMI.