Childhood obesity prevention: a life-course framework

Childhood obesity prevention: a life-course framework

Overweight/obese women are more likely to deliver newborns that also have a predisposition to store excessive amounts of fat since the early infancy period. Two evidence-based cycles are considered on the explanation of the maternal-child life-course approach for obesity prevention. The 'maternal' cycle indicates that pre-pregnancy overweight primiparous women are more likely to gain excessive ...

Education for childhood obesity prevention across the life-course: workshop conclusions

The objectives of this paper are to present the conclusions from the workshop 'Education for childhood obesity prevention: a life-course approach', coordinated by the Pan-American Health Organization and the Pan-American Health and Education Foundation, and held on 14 June 2012 in Aruba, as part of the II Pan-American Conference on Childhood Obesity (http://www.paco.aw/). This workshop focused ...

The life course of severe obesity: does childhood overweight matter?

OBJECTIVES A life course perspective is used to examine the epidemiology of severe obesity in adulthood, defined as a body mass index > or = 35 kg/m(2). METHODS Data from adults in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I: Epidemiologic Followup Study, including their reports of childhood overweight, were used to examine the risk of severe obesity and mortality over 20 years (N ...

prevention of childhood obesity

Obesity prevention: life course approach vs continuing environmental 'detoxification'.

ask which island is doing better, we should point out that the narrowing he observed is between the life expectancy of men and women in New Zealand. 6 He misread the key to Figure 3. There is no difference between mean life expectancy of the population of the two main islands of New Zealand—a broad geographical equality few other territories can emulate when their populations are divided so sim...