Overweight and obesity are rapidly increasing in prevalence due to adoption of the westernized life style in Korea. Obesity is strongly associated with the development of cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. In addition, accumulating evidence suggests that obesity per se has a direct effect on cardiac functional and structural changes that may not be the...

Research on Kurdish women has burgeoned during the last decade, which is a positive sign of growing interest regarding highly marginalized population and region. However, most these works contain theoretical methodological inadequacies, fallacies contradictory messages agency, or lack it, women, along with an orientalist approach. Using feminist rhetorical criticism discourse approaches, togeth...

The myriad of social, financial, material health, and educational inequities that continue to plague Indigenous communities was exacerbated by COVID-19. In order place on spotlight them, this case follows Star, an Student Success Coordinator, as she navigated the policies practices couched in rhetoric supporting success, health wellness students families during a global pandemic. teaching notes...

BACKGROUND The relationships between diet, exercise, and prostate cancer (PCa) remain unclear. We have previously reported that a "Western" diet promotes PCa tumor growth in vivo. Presently, we report the effects of sustained aerobic exercise on PCa progression in animals fed a high-fat diet versus a standard diet. METHODS Athymic mice (n = 43) were inoculated subcutaneously with human PCa (L...

Urbanization has changed life styles of the children in some towns and cities on Leyte island in the Philippines. To evaluate the impact of modernization in dietary habits on gut microbiota, we compared fecal microbiota of 7 to 9-year-old children from rural Baybay city (n = 24) and urban Ormoc city (n = 19), and assessed the correlation between bacterial composition and diet. A dietary survey ...

For a long time, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) has been regarded largely a problem of the affluent countries [1]. However, there is now increasing realization that NIDDM is becoming a major problem in developing countries as well [2, 4]. There is reason to believe that urbanization and accompanying change from a traditional life style to a more ‘westernized’ one may increase t...

Genomics of childhood obesity is an important and timely topic for investigators to better understand the role of gene function in the causation of childhood obesity, a significant health problem affecting much of westernized societies. Genetic abnormalities account for much of childhood obesity, syndromic and non-syndromic. Completion of the Human Genome Project and availability of genome sequ...

Several metabolic alterations accumulate over time along with a reduction in biological fitness, suggesting the existence of a "metabolic clock" that controls aging. Multiple inborn defects in metabolic circuitries accelerate aging, whereas genetic loci linked to exceptional longevity influence metabolism. Each of the nine hallmarks of aging is connected to undesirable metabolic alterations. Th...

Obesity, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension are common, interrelated medical problems in Westernized, industrialized societies. These interrelated medical conditions are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and are more prevalent in several minority groups, including African-American and Hispanic populations. The associated cardiovascular risks of these problems are more...

Environmental factors are suspected in the increase of obesity and cancer in industrialized countries but are poorly understood. Here, we used animal models to test how future generations may be affected by Westernized diets. We discover long-term consequences of grandmothers' in utero dietary exposures, leading to high rates of obesity and frequent cancers of lung and liver in two subsequent g...