Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health.

By T. Lobstein, Louise A. Baur, R. Uauy. Obesity Reviews, 2004

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Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Early‐life determinants of overweight and obesity: a review of systematic reviews (2010, background): “The 58 papers used to update the results of the systematic reviews were carried out in North America (29), Western Europe (19), Australasia (4), China (3), Latin America (2) and Belarus (1).”
Health-related quality of life of overweight and obese children. (2005, background): “” Child overweight and obesity are now so endemic that many countries are reporting prevalences of 25% or higher.(2) If the associations seen in the study by Schwimmer et al remain for overweight and obese children across the population, then a substantial proportion of children and adolescents coul”
Technology, transport, globalization and the nutrition transition food policy (2006, positive): “Currently, child obesity is reaching high levels at a rapid rate in many higher-income countries, but lags behind in the lower- and middle-income countries ( Lobstein et al., 2004; Wang et al., 2002).”
Effect of Obesity on the Pharmacokinetics of Drugs in Humans (2010, background): “Even more alarming is the expansion of the obesity epidemic to the world’s children and adolescents.([4]) Regardless of the demographics, the driving forces behind the rise in obesity are believed to be multifactorial, involving an interplay of social, economic, behavioural and genetic factors.”
Australian Dietary Guidelines (2006, background): “Childhood obesity has been identified as one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century [703].”
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults (2017, positive): “4,53,54 Our finding that the number of children and adolescents aged 5–19 years in the world who are moderately or severely underweight remains larger than those who are obese shows the continued need for policies that enhance food security in low-income countries and households, especially in…”
Physical activity and obesity in children (2011, background): “The rising prevalence of childhood obesity is a serious concern in developed countries”