Child and adolescent obesity: part of a bigger picture.

By T. Lobstein, R. Jackson-Leach, M. Moodie, Kevin D. Hall, S. Gortmaker, Boyd A Swinburn, W. James, Youfa Wang, K. McPherson. The Lancet, 2015

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The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has risen substantially worldwide in less than one generation. In the USA, the average weight of a child has risen by more than 5 kg within three decades, to a point where a third of the country's children are overweight or obese. Some low-income and middle-income countries have reported similar or more rapid rises in child obesity, despite continuing high levels of undernutrition. Nutrition policies to tackle child obesity need to promote healthy growth and household nutrition security and protect children from inducements to be inactive or to overconsume foods of poor nutritional quality. The promotion of energy-rich and nutrient-poor products will encourage rapid weight gain in early childhood and exacerbate risk factors for chronic disease in all children, especially those showing poor linear growth. Whereas much public health effort has been expended to restrict the adverse marketing of breastmilk substitutes, similar effort now needs to be expanded and strengthened to protect older children from increasingly sophisticated marketing of sedentary activities and energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods and beverages. To meet this challenge, the governance of food supply and food markets should be improved and commercial activities subordinated to protect and promote children's health.

Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• Food literacy competencies: A conceptual framework for youth transitioning to adulthood (2018, positive): “The poor diet of children and youth, coupled with high rates of overweight and obesity, put them at elevated future risk for fu‐ ture physical and mental health issues (Lobstein et al., 2015; Popkin et al., 2012; Reilly & Kelly, 2011).”
• Agri-Food Markets towards Sustainable Patterns (2020, background): “[149] point out an increase in the incidence of overweight and obesity among children, both worldwide (including in developing countries) and in the United States, and put forward that to tackle this pandemics “the governance of food supply and food markets should be improved and commercial activiti”
• Obesity in children and adolescents: epidemiology, causes, assessment, and management (2022, background): “36 These changes operate at the level of the family (eg, family modelling of physical activity, food habits, sleep, screen use), local community (eg, child care and schools, parks, green space, public transport and food outlets), or the broader sociopolitical environment (eg, government policies,…”