Research on Nutrition and Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Global and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 7735
Special Issue Editors
Interests: childhood obesity; dietary patterns; food consumption; wine; Mediterranean diet; NCDs
Interests: clinical nutrition; pediatric nutrition; obesity; obesity-related diseases
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2. Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece
3. School of Arts and Sciences Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Interests: nutritional epidemiology; Mediterranean diet; lifestyle; cardiovascular disease; aging; healthy aging; successful aging
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The prevalence of obesity across childhood and adolescence remains still an unresolved issue consisting of a major burden on public health. According to WHO, over 340 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 were overweight or obese in 2016. Obesity in children and adolescents has profound both immediate and long-term medical and psychosocial consequences as it is associated with a cluster of risk factors responsible for the development of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in later life. The multifaceted nature of obesity stems from the fact that no single factor causes this epidemic but it is rather the result of multiple bunches of intercorrelated interactions between genetic, biological, developmental, behavioral, and environmental factors. Beyond that, the recently emerging research findings highlight the contributory role of epigenetics and the gut microbiome, as well as intrauterine and intergenerational effects on the onset of obesity. The most crucial modifiable factor within this apparent complexity persists to be dietary habits shaped in early life in the frame of both family and community-based environments.
Thus, in this special issue original research papers, reviews, and meta-analytic studies are invited to shed further light on the role of nutrition on childhood and adolescent obesity in this complex grid of interrelated factors.
Dr. Rena Kosti
Dr. Odysseas Androutsos
Guest Editors
Dr. Alexandra Foscolou
Guest Editor Assistant
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- children
- adolescents
- obesity
- diet
- patterns
- family
- perceptions
- behavior
- environment
- lifestyle