Introduction
Addressing all forms of marketing of foods, non-alcoholic and/or alcoholic beverages that promote unhealthy diets and practices to children and adolescents has been identified as an area of urgent action in the public health policy arena. The issue is usually tackled via a combination of statutory legislation and self-regulation by relevant stakeholders, either in the form of...
The current prevalence of overweight and obesity among school-aged children (5-16 years) was 27.5 % in 2017. Between 1998 and 2017, the prevalence of combined overweight and obesity has doubled in children (from 11% to 27.5%) in Seychelles and is high or higher than many western countries.
Although childhood obesity is a concern in Seychelles there is little information about growth quality....
Introduction: The burden of malnutrition is well known in Benin under all its phenotypes. In 2005, Ntandou et al, found that the undernutrition child coexisted with maternal overweight or obesity in 16.2% of the households. Ten years after, Sossa et al, showed that the prevalence of children’s undernutrition and mother’s overweight/obese in the same household was 21.68% and was associated to...
Background: Bio-electrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) is a noninvasive and relatively simple assessment of body composition via a harmless electric current using portable equipment. Height-adjusted resistance and reactance values obtained hence can be plotted on a graph and the vector displacement analyzed relative to a reference population. This bio-electrical impedance vector analysis...
Undernutrition mainly occurs in vulnerable groups but poor dietary habits, lifestyle and food environment led to obesity among young children and adolescents that is recognised as one of the major public health challenges in both entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity 2% of children under five are underweight 2.6% wasted and 9.9% of children stunted...
IAEA endorses the use of stable isotope techniques to assess body composition in an effort to address public health nutrition impediments around the globe. In particular, the deuterium dilution technique has proven its superiority to anthropometric and bioelectrical impedance analysis by providing high-quality data under diverse experimental settings [1-2]. Total body water (TBW) is often used...
INTRODUCTION: Under-nutrition and over-nutrition have adverse effects of health and are both associated with negative human developments. In Botswana data is limited on the prevalence of these conditions; moreover the existing data is at best equivocal. There is also evidence of high stunting rates in children under five years of age. Therefore, there is a critical need to explore assessment...
Background & Aims: Global estimates of overweight and obesity prevalence in children are based upon the World Health Organization (WHO) body mass index (BMI)-for-age. As part of the ROUND-IT Africa project (a cross-sectional multi-center study conducted in 11 countries) our aim was to validate the accuracy of WHO BMI-for-age as a means of assessing excessive body fatness in primary school...
Introduction
Consensus on the criteria by which to define and estimate the double burden of malnutrition is required, but this is lacking for Asian children for whom different criteria are being used. There is general agreement that Asian populations require lower cut-points to identify overweight and obesity than Western populations, [1-3] but these cut-points have not been well-established...
In this study we integrate energy expenditure data from wearable accelerometry devices with data on time-use and food intake to capture seasonal intra-household differences in agricultural and rural livelihoods in developing country contexts. We report the preliminary findings from a study in Northern Ghana respondents wearing accelerometry devices for four non-consecutive weeks (7 days)...
