The Danish Whole Grain case study highlights positive social marketing techniques to promote healthy diets and help address childhood obesity. To encourage the Danish population to consume more whole grains, a logo was launched in […]
Obesity prevention policies are becoming a priority for many governments. A narrative review conducted as part of the STOP project considered three contextual factors – cost, equity and social inequalities, and acceptability to stakeholders – […]
With childhood obesity becoming one of the most dramatic features of the global obesity epidemic, deploying economic tools to address obesity are widely considered. We conducted a study to assess the effects of a hypothetical […]
Childhood obesity is related to a higher risk of morbidity both during childhood and adulthood, and subsequent greater risk of premature mortality. We performed geospatial analyses on the urban environment to assess the role of […]
One of the main factors contributing to unhealthy diets, and by extension, to obesity, is unhealthy food environments, defined as the collective physical, economic, policy and sociocultural surroundings, opportunities and conditions that influence people’s food […]
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 […]
