Childhood obesity is a serious public health challenge with health repercussions during adulthood. It results from the interaction between genetic, lifestyle, obesogenic environments and social determinants. Studying the molecular pathways that lead from external exposures […]
To change trends of childhood obesity across the EU, comprehensive action is needed. The ground-breaking inter-disciplinary approach adopted in the STOP project allowed us, over the first 18 months, to identify key findings that will […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has put an end to face-to-face conferences for the foreseeable future. In light of this, the STOP, CO-CREATE and PEN projects felt a virtual joint symposium with key members of the three […]
The World Healthy Organization has highlighted non-communicable diseases as a risk factor for becoming seriously ill with COVID-19. Specifically, emerging evidence seems to show that people living with overweight or obesity are at an increased […]
Two new journal articles on STOP research have been published in BMC Public Health and the JAMA network, respectively: Planting a seed – child health care nurses’ perceptions of speaking to parents about overweight and […]
Several new deliverables have been published in the Results section of the STOP website. These deliverables contain information regarding management and communication processes and achievements, as well as information regarding processes, analyses and methodologies for […]
The STOP Consortium, in collaboration with EIT Health and EIT Food, has launched a second call for an industry-led project aimed at developing innovations with the potential to curb childhood obesity in Europe, either by […]
The third STOP newsletter has been released! In this issue, you can find out the latest regarding the project and learn more about our results so far. Read about our innovation projects, the new call […]
By Olivier Allais Allais, Olivier, Enderli, Géraldine and Soler, Louis-Georges of INRAE France have recently proposed a working paper on the evaluation of the impact of Dutch, French, and British sugar-reduction policies on the sugar […]
By Ali Belabess Microsimulation models of health outcomes are designed to reproduce the epidemiological dynamics of a population of interest. Models do so by simulating individual life histories for each member of the population, including […]
