Nutritional Management in Childhood Obesity

RUNNING HEAD: PREVENTING CHILDHOOD OBESITY THROUGH NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION 1 Preventing Childhood Obesity Through Nutritional Education

Childhood Obesity: Immune Response and Nutritional Approaches

Childhood obesity is characterized by a low-grade inflammation status depending on the multicellular release of cytokines, adipokines, and reactive oxygen species. In particular, the imbalance between anti-inflammatory T regulatory cells and inflammatory T helper 17 cells seems to sustain such a phlogistic condition. Alterations of gut microbiota since childhood also contribute to the maintenan...

Management of childhood obesity.

Nutritional Management of Cholestatic Syndromes in Childhood

Cholestatic liver disease causes severe risk of malnutrition which includes protein-energy malnutrition and specific nutritional deficiencies. The nutritional status can be assessed based on anthropometric measurements, which can be misleading because of ascitis and peripheral edema. Biochemical determinations of lipid-soluble vitamin status are important to evaluate requirements. Based on nutr...

Nutritional management in childhood and adolescent diabetes.