Carlos Garçon de Faria

ORCID: 0000-0002-1930-4528
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Research Areas
  • Health and Lifestyle Studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Body Composition Measurement Techniques
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology

Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
2025

Universidade Federal de São Carlos
2025

Summary What is already known about this subject? Obesity at epidemic levels and presents a serious global public health challenge. Portugal one of the European countries with highest prevalence childhood obesity. Childhood Surveillance Initiative (COSI) robust monitoring system covering similar age groups, using standardized methods that allows comparability other WHO Region Member States. study adds? In Portugal, in every three 6‐ to 8‐year‐old children are overweight. Compared COSI...

10.1111/j.2047-6310.2012.00068.x article EN Pediatric Obesity 2012-08-17

The present study had the objective of comparing lipid profile, nutritional status and body composition adolescents their parents.A cross-sectional was conducted with 120 from 10 to 13 years old, public schools students city Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil respective biological parents (104 mothers 82 fathers). Data collected regarding weight, height, waist hip circumference, fat, triglycerides, total fraction cholesterol. Besides, taking skinfold measurements (bicipital, tricipital,...

10.3305/nh.2012.27.4.5832 article EN DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2012-11-21

To evaluate the per capita availability of energy and macronutrients in home frequency food consumption by adolescents to relate them with anthropometric biochemical variables, as well verify if eating habits parents are associated children.We evaluated weight, height, body fat (%BF), glucose, insulin, triglycerides, total cholesterol (TC) fractions 120 adolescents. We also their parents.Adolescents more than 35% available lipids had 9.1-fold higher chances presenting alterations TC. Those...

10.3305/nh.2013.28.4.6467 article EN PubMed 2013-07-31
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