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- Title
Metodología del estudio Guadix sobre los efectos de un desayuno de tipo mediterráneo sobre los parámetros lipídicos y postprandiales en preadolescentes con sobrepeso y obesidad.
- Authors
J. Aguilar Cordero, Ma.; González Jiménez, E.; Sánchez Perona, J.; A. Padilla López, C.; Álvarez Ferré, J.; Mur Villar, N.; Rivas García, F.
- Abstract
The excess weight that characterizes much of the population of the world today has led the World Health Organization to declare an obesity pandemic. The number of overweight and obese children in Spain is among the highest in Europe, and this number is even higher in Andalusia. The health consequences of excess weight for children are not as evident as for adults. However, child obesity is now being associated with pathologies, such as metabolic syndrome, which were previously believed to be only found in adults. Resistance to insulin is an important risk factor in subjects with severe obesity, which along with visceral obesity, make postprandial triglyceridemia more severe. This increases cardiovascular risk. However, in our opinion, this phenomenon has not been adequately studied in children. The hearthealthy properties of olive oil, the main ingredient of the Mediterranean diet, have been clearly highlighted in various studies. These properties include an improved postprandial lipid pattern. In this context, the objective of this study was to determine the effects of a Mediterranean-diet breakfast on the postprandial lipid parameters in a study group of overweight and obese preadolescents (age 10-14) in comparison to a control group of subjects with no weight problems. The results obtained provide greater knowledge of the physiopathology of child obesity and contribute to the elaboration of dietary recommendations for the maintenance of child health. Additionally, our results give information regarding the development of atherogenesis during the postprandial period, which can begin at a very early age.
- Subjects
ANDALUSIA (Spain); SPAIN; CHILDHOOD obesity; OVERWEIGHT children; METABOLIC disorders; PRETEENS; BREAKFASTS; MEDITERRANEAN cooking
- Publication
Nutrición Hospitalaria, 2010, Vol 25, Issue 6, p1025
- ISSN
0212-1611
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3305/nh.2010.25.6.5049