how food industries can help in preventing childhood obesity and metabolic syndrome?

How Food Industries Can Help in Preventing Childhood Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome?

[Can the advertising and food industries help prevent childhood obesity and promote healthy lifestyles?].

sdos voluntarios son similares a las utilizadas previamente por las industrias del tabaco y el alcohol, cuya autorregulación se ha demostrado inefectiva y contraproducente para la salud pública5. No debería sorprendernos, puesto que los intereses económicos de ambas industrias están directamente ligados al incremento del consumo de los productos anunciados, en su mayoría altamente energéticos y...

Metabolic syndrome in childhood obesity.

OBJECTIVES We determined the frequency of metabolic risk factors and the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in childhood obesity. SUBJECTS 186 obese children (97 females and 89 males), aged 11.2 +/- 2.8 (6-16) years and 98 healthy children (46 females and 52 males), aged 10.9 +/- 3.2 (6-16) years were recruited for the study, as study and control groups, respectively. METHODS Subjects were ev...

Preventing childhood overweight and obesity.

p o r o t t p 2 a t t p a t i i m c p y Childhood obesity is widely recognized as a major public health problem of global significance.1 In Latin America, the ever-rising rates of overweight and obesity observed over the past three decades have not spared children and adolescents. The most recent data estimate that between 42.4 and 51.8 million children and adolescents (0-18 years) are overweig...

Childhood overweight, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome in developing countries.

The incidence of chronic disease is escalating much more rapidly in developing countries than in industrialized countries. A potential emerging public health issue may be the increasing incidence of childhood obesity in developing countries and the resulting socioeconomic and public health burden faced by these countries in the near future. In a systematic review carried out through an electron...

Genetic susceptibility to obesity and metabolic syndrome in childhood.

Obesity is one of the major public health problems worldwide. It is a chronic, complex, and multifactorial origin disease characterised by body fat excess mainly due to an imbalance between dietary intake and energy expenditure. One of the major complications of obesity is metabolic syndrome, which comprises anthropometrical, clinical, and metabolic dysfunctions that predispose the affected ind...