Childhood obesity rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world. This paper examines and evaluates the many efforts underway in the region to reduce and prevent further increases in obesity, identifies and ...

Influence of nutritional variables and obesity on health and metabolism Obesity is a recurring theme in current scientific literature. This can easily be explained by its exponential increase in all layers of society. The ...

The prevalence of overweight and obesity is rapidly increasing among Latin American children, posing challenges for current healthcare systems and increasing the risk for a wide range of diseases. To understand the factors ...

Introduction: The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 2 aims to end malnutrition in all its forms. To reach this goal one of the several health problems to tackle is childhood obesity. Aim: In this study, spatial ...

Three concomitant phenomena occur in the later years of childhood: increases in the incidence ofasthma, obesity and early menarche. This article is an overview of the current epidemiologic, basic,genetic and epigenetic ...

The worldwide prevalence of childhood obesity is rapidly increasing in recent decades can be considered a worldwide epidemic. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze, from a systematic review, the scientific evidence ...

BACKGROUND: In recent decades, the prevalence of obesity in children has increased dramatically. This worldwide epidemic has important consequences, including psychiatric, psychological and psychosocial disorders in childhood ...