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Nutrition and oral health
Published in Jackie Musgrave, Health and Wellbeing for Babies and Children, 2022
Education settings are ideally placed to provide an environment that promotes healthy eating. Other strategies that are thought to reduce the factors that contribute to an obesogenic environment are to limit the advertising of less healthy food. In England, certain soft drinks are liable for a sugar tax which is aimed at reducing the consumption of high calorie and high sugar drinks (HM Treasury 2018).
Eating – You, the World, and Food
Published in Emily Crews Splane, Neil E. Rowland, Anaya Mitra, Psychology of Eating, 2019
Emily Crews Splane, Neil E. Rowland, Anaya Mitra
The environmental approach considers that nothing is fundamentally broken within the majority of overweight individuals, but rather it is the environment – broadly defined – that is causing the problems. Indeed, the obesity epidemic has been fueled by increases in the energy content and amount of food available, its advertising and marketing, and a generally low level of physical activity, factors that together form a so-called obesogenic environment. Are there effective ways in which this obesogenic environment can be “treated” and, if so, by whom? This is a difficult issue because the food environment is heavily influenced by economic forces that constrain behaviors of business entities ranging from production to retail, behaviors that are partially shaped by consumer demand but also are designed in turn to influence consumer demand. One approach that has frequently been tried in relation to individuals combating an obesogenic environment is that of diets and diet programs. These are, effectively, devices to achieve cognitive restraint – for example, by restricting times of eating or by consuming smaller amounts of a smaller range of foods. Diets, dieting, and restraint are discussed later in this text.
Obesity and Health
Published in James M. Rippe, Lifestyle Medicine, 2019
James M. Rippe, Theodore J. Angelopoulos
Obesity is, in many ways, the quintessential lifestyle disease. It is abundantly clear that obesity is a complicated multi-factorial problem resulting from numerous internal and external influences which impact on the obese individual. It has been argued that, in the United States and most of the Western world, we live in an obesogenic (some have even called it a “toxic”) environment for weight gain. In addition to individual choices related to nutrition and physical activity, there are also significant impacts on the risk of developing obesity from family, culture, community, government, and world food policies.22 Genetic influences clearly play a role since some individuals are more likely to gain weight than others and some ethnic groups (e.g., Hispanic and Black women)5 are much more affected than others, although all ethnicities and both genders are affected by obesity.
Examining the Association Between Parental Factors and Childhood Obesity
Published in Journal of Community Health Nursing, 2023
Kashica J. Webber-Ritchey, Desale Habtezgi, Xiaoxia Wu, Anya Samek
Evidence suggests an association between the consumption of obesogenic foods such as fatty cheeses and processed foods and increased risk for obesity in children (Liberali et al., 2020; Livingston et al., 2021). However, in contrast to our findings, previous evidence typically supports tomatoes as healthy foods that reduce the risk of obesity (Ferreira et al., 2013; Vinha et al., 2014). For example, a mixed methods study found an association between pre-meal tomato intake, weight, fat percentage, blood glucose levels, triglycerides, and cholesterol in young adult women (Vinha et al., 2014). Further, a randomized trial identified the beneficial effects of tomato intake on cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, especially when cooked and enriched with oil (Valderas-Martinez et al., 2016). While we do not have the evidence for this, it is possible that participants in our sample consumed other unhealthy foods together with tomato salsa that were not captured by our interview. This finding indicates the need for diet education on how tomatoes should be consumed to provide health benefits.
Improvement of body composition in 8- to 11-year-old schoolboys: effects of a 6-months lifestyle intervention A retrospective evaluation of the “EDDY-Kids” prevention study
Published in Child and Adolescent Obesity, 2022
Paula Moliterno, Julia Matjazic, Kurt Widhalm
Childhood obesity as excessive fat accumulation can lead to physical, social, or emotional health problems. Children with overweight or obesity are much more likely to suffer from asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, skeletal disorders, mental health problems, and other illnesses in adulthood (Llewellyn et al. 2016). Excessive weight gain during childhood is a complex phenomenon involving multiple risk factors, including genetics, behavior, and obesogenic environment, leading to overweight and obesity (Kohut et al. 2019). The two main modifiable factors contributing to weight gain are the increased consumption of energy-rich foods with high fat and sugar content and decreased physical activity (Beaglehole et al. 2011). Therefore, approaches to increasing physical activity and healthy eating have been identified as efficient means to prevent excessive weight gain during childhood (Fornari et al. 2021), evidence supports school-based interventions’ effectiveness (Wang et al. 2015).
Increased Obesity Awareness and Adherence to Healthy Lifestyle-Diet Reduce Metabolic Syndrome Risk in Overweight Children
Published in Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2020
Rukiye Bozbulut, Yasemin Ertaş-Öztürk, Esra Döğer, Aysun Bideci, Eda Köksal
Prevention of obesity and insulin resistance in particular, regulation of blood glucose, improvement of lipid profile and controlling the hypertension are among treatment targets for the metabolic syndrome (2, 24). Reinehr et al. (39), determined in their study that minimal body weight loss provided improvements in impaired glucose tolerance and blood pressure levels, and a decrement of 0.5 in BMI-SDS with improvements in components of the metabolic syndrome. Similarly, it is observed also in our study that, as children’s awareness about obesity increased, it was associated with reduction of body weights and improvement of biochemical parameters (Table 2). In much of the world, while dietary habits of children include total fat, saturated fat, sodium and sugar in high levels, a deficiency in consumption of calcium-rich foods and fiber is observed. This change in dietary habits and physical inactivity lead to an obesogenic society and, hence, the risk of metabolic syndrome increases (40). In previous studies, quality of life changes applied to obese children and adolescents were reported to provide significant improvements in lipid profiles, blood pressure values and glucose concentrations (39, 41–43). Also in this study, increment of children’s levels of awareness about obesity was observed to increase healthy lifestyle and diet quality scores by leading to behavioral changes, and to provide significant reductions in blood pressure, blood lipid profile, blood glucose and insulin values.