Rapidly changing dietary practices and a sedentary lifestyle have led to increasing
prevalence of childhood obesity (5–19 yr) in developing countries recently: 41.8% in Mexico …

Rapidly changing dietary practices accompanied by an increasingly sedentary lifestyle
predispose to nutrition-related non-communicable diseases, including childhood obesity …

Background Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and
adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean …

OBJECTIVE: To construct growth curves for school-aged children and adolescents that
accord with the WHO Child Growth Standards for preschool children and the body mass …

During the past two decades, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has
increased worldwide. Excess fat in childhood is a risk factor for later adult disease and is …

An adequate coordination level in children is important for their general development, but
also for health, psychosocial, academic and well‐being‐related reasons. In this study, the …

In this article, we critically review the three most common approaches of assessing chronic
food insecurity and undernutrition:(i) the FAO indicator of undernourishment,(ii) household …

Objective To examine the current extent of the obesity problem in 2 large pediatric clinical
registries in the US and Europe and to examine the hypotheses that increased body mass …

70 W. Chen, MH Chang used in Taiwan were based on the combined data from two
population-based surveys: the DOH (survey by stratified sampling of children from 0− 6 …

Background Child growth is internationally recognized as an important indicator of
nutritional status and health in populations. Child under-nutrition is estimated to be the …