Mauro Fisberg1, Priscila Maximino2, Juliana Kain3, Irina Kovalskys4. 1. International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI Brasil), Brazil; Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Instituto Pensi, Fundação José Luiz Egydio Setúbal, Hospital Infantil Sabará, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: mauro.fisberg@gmail.com. 2. Instituto Pensi, Fundação José Luiz Egydio Setúbal, Hospital Infantil Sabará, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 3. Instituto de Nutricion y Tecnologia de los Alimentos (INTA), Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile. 4. International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI Argentina), Argentina; School of Medical Sciences, Universidad Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate environmental obesogenic-related factors, such as physical activity in neighborhoods and schools, nutritional behavior, and intervention programs. SOURCES: Critical analysis of literature with personal point of view from infant obesity experts and political advisors for public intervention. DATA SYNTHESIS: Although obesity is a public health problem affecting several age groups, it is among children and adolescents that it plays a more important role, due to treatment complexity, high likelihood of persistence into adulthood, and association with other non-transmissible diseases while still in early age. Environment is a main component of the genesis and outcomes in the near future or long term. Modification of intake with high-density food, meal skipping, and high intake of saturated fat, sugar, and salt, associated to high levels of sedentarism are main causes of obesity. CONCLUSION: Intervention opportunities are related to modifications in political, environmental, and individual settings. School and physical activities in the educational environment are intertwined with nutrition intervention in continuous education. A critical review of some different scenarios in Latin American countries is presented.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate environmental obesogenic-related factors, such as physical activity in neighborhoods and schools, nutritional behavior, and intervention programs. SOURCES: Critical analysis of literature with personal point of view from infantobesity experts and political advisors for public intervention. DATA SYNTHESIS: Although obesity is a public health problem affecting several age groups, it is among children and adolescents that it plays a more important role, due to treatment complexity, high likelihood of persistence into adulthood, and association with other non-transmissible diseases while still in early age. Environment is a main component of the genesis and outcomes in the near future or long term. Modification of intake with high-density food, meal skipping, and high intake of saturated fat, sugar, and salt, associated to high levels of sedentarism are main causes of obesity. CONCLUSION: Intervention opportunities are related to modifications in political, environmental, and individual settings. School and physical activities in the educational environment are intertwined with nutrition intervention in continuous education. A critical review of some different scenarios in Latin American countries is presented.
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