This non-experimental, quantitative study examined exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life as a risk reduction factor of childhood overweight and obesity up to three years of age in a population of ...

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally. Obesity is accompanied by co-morbidities affecting multiple peripheral tissues. Obesity associated non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the leading cause of chronic ...

The role of obesity in the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and its more severe manifestation non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), is due, in part, to changes in the milieu of the cytokines and ...