Effects of Short-Term Exercise Training With and Without Milk Intake on Cardiometabolic and Inflammatory Adaptations in Obese Adolescents.

There is some evidence that a combination of factors can reduce inflammation and associated metabolic risk factors. We studied the early cardiometabolic and inflammatory adaptations to a short-term exercise intervention with and without milk in obese adolescents. Fifty-four adolescents were randomized to consume milk post exercise (MILK) or a carbohydrate beverage (CONT) during one-week of daily exercise.

Circulating endothelial cells in children: role of fitness, activity, and adiposity.

Purpose: Circulating endothelial cells (CEC) are thought to be useful biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction and overall cardiovascular health. The extent to which CEC are influenced by fitness, physical activity, and adiposity in youth remains unknown, as they have seldom been examined in the pediatric population. This study assessed resting levels of CEC in boys and girls of different chronological and biological age and explored the relationship between these cells and aerobic fitness, physical activity, and adiposity.

Overweight children reduce their activity levels earlier in life than healthy weight children.

Objective: To determine differences in the time overweight and nonoverweight youth spend on light, moderate, hard, and very hard activity plus gender and age differences in activity patterns.

Design And Setting: This study was a cross-sectional design in a primary care hospital.

Participants: A total of 197 children and adolescents (4-16 years) participated.

Food away from home, sugar-sweetened drink consumption and juvenile obesity.

Objective: To identify if particular foods or food groups may be associated with obesity in children and adolescents and to determine if consuming food away from home (FAFH) has an effect on the nutritional quality of their diets.

Design: One-year cross-sectional study.

Setting/subjects: The obese subjects (n = 91) were on the waiting list for a hospital-based weight control treatment program.