Abstract The Italian Consensus Position Statement on Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention
of Obesity in Children and Adolescents integrates and updates the previous guidelines to …

Importance Pediatric guidelines suggest that infants younger than 2 years avoid screen time
altogether, while children aged 2 to 5 years receive no more than 1 hour per day. Although …

The impact of screen‐based devices on children's health and development cannot be
properly understood without valid and reliable tools that measure screen time within the …

Currently, food marketing for unhealthy foods is omnipresent. Foods high in fat, salt, and
sugar (HFSS) are advertised intensively on several media platforms, including digital …

Objective To conduct a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials aimed at testing
whether school-based physical activity programmes improve cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) …

Objectives To describe the nutritional profile and assess the National Dietary Survey on the
Child and Adolescent Population project in Spain (ENALIA) regarding usual total energy …

Background: Physical activity has a beneficial effect on the brain's development process and
cognitive function. However, no review to date has evaluated the effects of active commuting …

Background and Objectives: Eating habits acquired or changed during childhood are likely
to track into adulthood. Due to the fact that nutritional behaviours are not so strongly formed …

The obesity epidemic is one of the major health concerns of the 21st century. Nonalcoholic
fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is linked with the increased adiposity associated with obesity …

Introduction Overweight or obese children develop abnormal endothelial cell dysfunction
and arterial intima–media thickening with increased vasomotor tone and inflammation …