Arlete Catarina Tittoni Corso

TL;DR: The epidemiological aspects of adults overweight and obesity as a considerable problem of public health are emphasized to mediate the consequences and connections of economic policies within the populations.

TL;DR: In children younger than two years old, only 28.7% received exclusive breastfeeding until six months and only 49.6% were on exclusive breastfeeding at the time of the interview, verifying the association between complementary food introduction, socioeconomic characteristics of mothers and biological characteristics of children.

TL;DR: The nutritional epidemiological picture of Brazil shows a situation that chaims for public health strategies, able to solve the malnutrition and obesity trends in the same attention-model in health, and to mediate the consequences and connections of economic policies within the populations, process of disease and death as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of 4.964 escolares in 345 escolas do ensino fundamental do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil, found that 52% of the participants were female.

TL;DR: A prevalencia de sobrepeso atraves do indice de peso para altura, classificacao expressa em escore-Z, em 3 806 criancas menores de seis anos de idade, residentes no municipio de Florianopolis, Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil as mentioned in this paper.