The World Health Organization classifies overweight and obesity the fifth leading risk for global deaths [1]. If no action will be taken to prevent them, they will have an epidemic proliferation and 50% of the population in 2025 will be overweight or obese. Once considered a high-income country problem, overweight and obesity are now on the rise in low and middle income countries, particularly ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in physical fitness, physical activity, and sedentary activities among 7 to 11 year old boys with varying body mass index in Ardabil, Iran. METHODS The sample consisted of 766 boys who participated in eight weight bearing (1 mile walk/run, sit ups, standing long jump, vertical jump, shuttle run 4 × 10 m, 30-meter sprint, pull up...

INTRODUCTION The pandemic of obesity in adolescents is one of the challenges of public health. AIM The aim of this study was to examine the association of overweight with demographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle factors among Serbian adolescents. METHOD A cross-sectional study of 2139 adolescents aged 10 to 19 years was carried out. Data used in this study were from the 2006 Health Survey. ...

This study investigated the relationship between eating behavior and childhood overweight among population-based elementary schoolchildren in Japan. Data was collected from fourth graders (9 or 10 years of age) from Ina Town, Saitama Prefecture, Japan from 1999 to 2009. Information about subjects' sex, age, and lifestyle, including eating behaviors (eating until full and chewing thoroughly), wa...

OBJECTIVE To examine the trend in prevalence of overweight and obesity in schoolchildren from south-eastern Poland over a 10-year period. MATERIALS AND METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted in randomly selected primary schools. In total, 4,248 children (2,182 boys and 2,066 girls), mean age 10.5±2.4 years, were examined in 1998, and 2,412 children (1,184 boys and 1,228 girls), mean age...

OBJECTIVE The present study examined the prevalence of underweight and overweight in a group of primary-school children in Zahedan, south-east Iran. DESIGN A cross-sectional study in a randomly selected population of schoolchildren. SETTING Primary-school children in Zahedan city. SUBJECTS A random sample of 1079 students (boys = 500 and girls = 579). Data on child's age, parental educati...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the relationship between body composition and physical fitness in 14 year-old high school adolescents of South Africa. Baseline data from a longitudinal study on physical activity and health (PAHLS) may provide valuable information for future studies, hence to inform public health policy makers. The objectives of this study are to determine the prevalence of und...

OBJECTIVE To establish the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican children 10 to 17 years of age according to the percentiles from both the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF). RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Heights and weights were measured in children from nationally representative, randomly chosen households in the Mexic...

OBJECTIVES We sought to explore 25-year trends of gender disparity in the prevalence of obesity and overweight both in urban and rural areas among Chinese children from 1985 to 2010. METHODS Data included 1 280 239 children aged 7-18 years enrolled in the Chinese National Survey on Students's Constitution and Health (CNSSCH), which is the largest nationally representative sample of school-age...