Background Brazil is currently experiencing a nutrition transition: the displacement of
traditional diets with foods high in saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol and an increase in …

In current society, body and beauty's cult emerge as one of the main factors of adolescence.
That leads adolescents to be dissatisfied with their own appearance, to psychological …

Purpose To evaluate the immediate post-intervention and 6-month post-intervention effects
of a Brazilian school-based randomized controlled trial for girls targeting shared risk factors …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The university context plays an important role in the health-
disease process since students are potentially vulnerable to obesogenic behaviors that can …

ObjectiveTo identify the association of individual and school environment factors with
overweight among adolescents. DesignCross-sectional study. Sociodemographic and …

Objective: To investigate the association between the perception of body weight (as above
or below the desired) and behaviors for body weight control in adolescents. Methods: This …

Background Body image is considered as central to many aspects of human functioning
including emotions, thoughts, behaviors and relationships. Our study aimed to investigate …

This article aims to study the relation between Body Mass Index (BMI) and body image in
adolescents from two different social environments in Spain and Mexico, and to compare the …

Objective To examine body image problems and their associations with disordered eating
behavior in adolescents with type 1 diabetes and well-matched healthy peers. Methods …

The aim of the present study was to establish whether changes in health-related behaviors
are associated with changes in the satisfaction/dissatisfaction with body weight in youths. It …