Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Childhood Obesity in Lower and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
(Neha Jain, Shalini Bassi and Monika Arora, Health Promotion Division, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, Haryana, India)
Chapter 2. Epigenetics and Childhood Obesity
(Sharifeh Khosravi, PhD, Sima Jafarpour, PhD, Rasoul Salehi, Motahar Heidari-Beni and Roya Kelishadi, Pediatric Inherited Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-Communicable Disease and Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran, and others)
Chapter 3. Food Environment and Childhood Overweight and Obesity
(Nasrin Omidvar and Mina Babashahi, Department of Community Nutrition, National Nutrition and Food Technology, Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)
Chapter 4. The Association of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Childhood Obesity
(Karim Ebrahimpour, PhD, Mohammad Mehdi. Amin, PhD, Bahareh Shoshtari-Yeganeh, PhD, and Roya Kelishadi, MD, Environment Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-Communicable Disease, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, and others)
Chapter 5. Family-Related Risk Factors of Childhood Obesity
(Xin’nan Zong and Bo Xi, Department of Growth and Development, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China, and others)
Chapter 6. Simple Interactive Tools Supporting the Diagnosis of Obesity, Hypertension and Low Physical Fitness in Children and Adolescents
(Tadeusz Nawarycz, Krzysztof Pytel and Lidia Ostrowska-Nawarycz, Department of Biophysics, Chair of Experimental and Clinical Physiology, Medical University of Lodz, Poland, and others)
Chapter 7. Sleep Patterns and Sedentary Behaviors: Is the Association with Obesity Already Evident in Childhood?
(Cézane Priscila Reuter, PhD, Silvia Isabel Rech Franke, PhD, Aline Rosso Lehnhard, Ana Paula Sehn,
João Francisco de Castro Silveira, Jane Dagmar Pollo Renner, PhD, and Roya Kelishadi, MD, Department of Health Sciences and Graduate Program in Health Promotion, University of Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 8. Parental Factors Associated with Childhood Obesity
(Sara Jalali-Farahani, PhD, Hasti Masihay-Akbar, MD, and Parisa Amiri, PhD, Research Center for Social Determinants of Health, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)
Chapter 9. Cardiovascular System in Childhood Obesity
(Bahar Dehghan, MD, Pediatric Cardiology Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran)
Chapter 10. Associations of Overweight/Obesity and Cardio Metabolic Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents Participating in the PEP Family Heart Study
(Gerda Maria Haas and Peter Schwandt, MD, PHD, Atherosclerosis Prevention Institute, Munich-Nuremberg, Germany, and others)
Chapter 11. Metabolically Healthy Obesity in the Childhood: A Pattern or a Transient State?
(Cézane Priscila Reuter, PhD, Éboni Marília Reuter, PhD, Leticia Borfe, Letícia Welser, Letícia de Borba Schneiders, Elza Daniel de Mello, MD, Jane Dagmar Pollo Renner, PhD, and Roya Kelishadi, MD, Department of Health Sciences and Graduate Program in Health Promotion, University of Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 12. Protecting Children from Unfavorable Food Marketing
(Behnaz Abiri, PhD, and Mohammadreza Vafa, Nutritional Sciences, Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Paramedicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran, and others)
Chapter 13. Actions to Promote the Intake of Healthy Foods by Children
(Cintia Chaves Curioni, PhD, Evelyn Kowalczyk dos Santos, Ana Carolina Felderheimer da Silva, PhD, Evelyne Florido Lobato Cavalcante and Jorginete de Jesus Damião, PhD, Institute of Nutrition, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Chapter 14. Lifestyle Modifications and Dietary Approaches to Prevent Obesity Hypertension among Children and Adolescents
(Farahnak Assadi, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, Rush University Medical Sciences, Chicago, US)
Chapter 15. Appropriate Physical Activities for Controlling Childhood Obesity
(Vazgen Minasian and Roya Kelishadi, Department of Exercise physiology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran, and others)
Chapter 16. An Overview of Interventions for Controlling Obesity in Pre-School Children
(Golgis Karimi, PhD, Seyede Shahrbanoo Daniali, PhD, and Roya Kelishadi, MD, Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, US, and others)
Chapter 17. Effect of School Programs for Healthy Eating and Active Living to Prevent Childhood Obesity
(Behnaz Abiri, PhD, and Mohammadreza Vafa, Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Paramedicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran, and others)
Chapter 18. Surgery to Treat Obesity in Children and Adolescents
(Beheshteh Olang, MD, PhD, Aliakbar Sayyari, MD, Farid Imanzadeh, MD, Bahareh Amirkalali, PhD, Masoud Khorshidi, PhD, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Nutrition, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Research Center, Research Institute for Children’s Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, and others)
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