Obesity and its association with mental health among Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review.

Context: Obesity and mental health issues increasingly affect children and adolescents, but whether obesity is a risk factor for mental health issues is unclear.

Objective: To systematically review the association between obesity and mental health issues (ie, anxiety and/or depression) among Mexican children and adolescents.

Data Sourcing, Extraction, And Synthesis: A literature search of 13 databases and 1 search engine was conducted.

Cultural factors related to childhood and adolescent obesity in Mexico: A systematic review of qualitative studies.

Culture and culturally specific beliefs or practices may influence perceptions and decisions, potentially contributing to childhood obesity. The objective of this study is to identify the cultural factors (expressed through decisions, behaviors, individual experiences, perceptions, attitudes, or views) related to childhood and adolescent obesity in Mexico. Ten databases and one search engine were searched from 1995 onwards for qualitative studies.

Interventions to Prevent Obesity in Mexican Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review.

The prevalence of overweight and obesity has been rising among Mexican children and adolescents in the last decades. To systematically review obesity prevention interventions delivered to Mexican children and adolescents. Thirteen databases and one search engine were searched for evidence from 1995 to 2021.

Obesity and oral health in Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Context: A relationship between obesity and poor oral health has been reported.

Objective: To investigate the association between overweight/obesity and oral health in Mexican children and adolescents.

Data Sources: A literature search was conducted of 13 databases and 1 search engine for articles published from 1995 onward.

Interventions to Treat Obesity in Mexican Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Context: Prevalence of overweight and obesity has been rising in the past 3 decades among Mexican children and adolescents.

Objective: To systematically review experimental studies evaluating interventions to treat obesity in Mexican children and adolescents (≤18 years old).

Data Sources: For this study, 13 databases and 1 search engine were searched.

Involvement of the food industry in nutrition conferences in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Objective: Identify and characterise the food industry's involvement in nutrition and dietetics national and regional events in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Design: Between February and April 2020, we conducted desk-based searches for nutrition and dietetics events held in the region between January 2018 and December 2019. Online freely accessible, publicly available information was collected on the involvement of the food industry through: sponsorship of events; sponsorship of sessions; speakers from the food industry; scholarships, fellowship, grants, awards and other prizes and; exhibition space/booths.

[Association between birth weight and cardiometabolic risk factors in children of Bucaramanga, Colombia>].

Background: Birth weight could be a medium-term risk factor in the development of overweight and obesity and a long-term risk factor of cardio-metabolic diseases.

Objective: To evaluate the association between birth weight and cardio-metabolic risk factors in children from Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included 1,282 children between five and eleven years of age in Bucaramanga.

Prenatal Docosahexaenoic Acid Supplementation Does Not Affect Nonfasting Serum Lipid and Glucose Concentrations of Offspring at 4 Years of Age in a Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial in Mexico.

Background: Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) has regulatory effects on lipid and glucose metabolism. Differences in DHA availability during specific developmental windows may program metabolic changes.

Objective: We investigated the effects of maternal DHA supplementation during pregnancy on the nonfasting serum lipid and glucose concentrations of offspring at 4 y of age.

[Eating-nutritional interculturality in the Wixarika ethnic group of Mexico].

Background: The high prevalence of eating-nutritional problems and the low degree of impact the food programs have, mainly because the cosmovision of this people has been overlooked warrants the recovery of the eating-nutritional culture of the Wixarika ethnic group in Mexico. This research is aimed at providing elements for constructing a sustainable, intercultaral, participation-based eating and nutrition model bringing together modernity and this people's ancestral taditions.

Methods: The participative action based on the Sociocritical epistemology was employed as the research methodology with the in-depth survey and participating ethnography techniques.