Dietary Patterns and Healthy Habits Along the Life Course

Childhood represents a critical window in the life course for the establishment of dietary patterns and other healthy habits. In the last decades, these habits have been changing significantly, and childhood obesity has become an increasing public health issue, with many clinical consequences.^–

To address these issues, it is of paramount importance to understand dietary patterns and their relation to body measurements, as Rocha et al propose in the paper “Association of Dietary Patterns with Excess Weight and Body Adiposity in Brazilian Children: The Pase-Brasil Study. The authors have identified five different patterns, including the “traditional Brazilian”, “non-healthy”, “fast-food/snacks”, “processed” and “healthy”.

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