title: Obesogenic environment - intervention opportunities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate environmental obesogenic-related factors, such as physical activity in neighborhoods and schools, nutritional behavior, and intervention programs.
  
  
  METHODS
  Critical analysis of literature with personal point of view from infant obesity experts and political advisors for public intervention.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Although obesity is a public health problem affecting several age groups, it is among children and adolescents that it plays a more important role, due to treatment complexity, high likelihood of persistence into adulthood, and association with other non-transmissible diseases while still in early age. Environment is a main component of the genesis and outcomes in the near future or long term. Modification of intake with high-density food, meal skipping, and high intake of saturated fat, sugar, and salt, associated to high levels of sedentarism are main causes of obesity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Intervention opportunities are related to modifications in political, environmental, and individual settings. School and physical activities in the educational environment are intertwined with nutrition intervention in continuous education. A critical review of some different scenarios in Latin American countries is presented.
authors.affiliation: International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI Brasil), Brazil; Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Instituto Pensi, Fundação José Luiz Egydio Setúbal, Hospital Infantil Sabará, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: mauro.fisberg@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fisberg
authors.affiliation: Instituto Pensi, Fundação José Luiz Egydio Setúbal, Hospital Infantil Sabará, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Priscila
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maximino
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Nutricion y Tecnologia de los Alimentos (INTA), Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kain
authors.affiliation: International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI Argentina), Argentina; School of Medical Sciences, Universidad Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Irina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kovalskys
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D004777:Environment; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D000070497:Healthy Lifestyle; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012574:Schools
keywords: Adolescentes; Adolescents; Ambiente escolar; Atividade física; Children; Crianças; Obesidade; Obesity; Physical activity; School environment