The 10% of 6131 Portugese adolescents who did not supply height or weight data in a health and lifestyle questionaire had poorer health, self image and social networks than their peers.  Here.

Comparing a questionnaire with accelerometry measurements in 130 children aged 6 or 7 showed that the questionnaire significantly overestimated the level of activity, suggesting it is a poor tool to describe exercise levels.  Here.

A longitudinal study of the activity of children suggests that higher physical activity is associated with increased metabolic health, but not measures such as BMI or fatness.  Here.

27 children in 21 families went through an intensive intervention program, with subsequent improvements in quality of life and (small) improvments in BMI SDS at 9 months. Here.

In a Finnish birth cohort of 5665 adolescents assessed at 16 years 2.4% had metabolic syndrome using a paediatric definition, 1.7% using an adult definition.  Here.

In a cohort of 101 free-living children – those able to alter their intake from day to day – there was no evidence to support the hypothesis that children self-regulate their daily calorie consumption.  Here.

In a birth cohort of 281 South African children, body composition is related to socioeconomic status only when considered using lean and fat mass as well as BMI.  Here.

In an analysis of Bulgarian children’s TV, food advertising accounted for a third of commercials, of which nearly all were unhealthy food choices.  Here.

When eighty healthcare professionals were asked to look at photographs and assign one of six categories from underweight to obesity in 33 children, they were poor at assessment, and tended to underestimate overweight conditions.  Here.

Perspective:  Corvalan, Dangour and Uauy look at the need to address all of the different causes of malnutrition in the light of emerging information regarding increases in both obesity and undernutrition in developing countries.  Here.