CV Lattes
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Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Núcleo Interdepartamental de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (NISAN). Centro de Recuperação e Educação Alimentar (CREN) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Ciências Biológicas from Universidade de São Paulo (1979), master's at Nutrição from University of Cambridge (1983), master's at Physiology from Universidade de São Paulo (1982) and ph.d. from University of Cambridge (1985). Has experience in Physiology, focusing on Physiology of Organs ans Systems, acting on the following subjects: desnutricao, criancas, obesidade, crianca and recuperacao nutricional. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Overweight has become a global pandemic and the main problem for global public health. His treatment has revealed a complex reality with attenuating and aggravating as yet little known. For example, increasing evidence suggests that hyper-palatable foods, or some ingredients in these foods, may be able to trigger an additive process that aggravates the disease picture. In addition, there …
Excess of weight in adolescence is a major concern in the world today. There is growing evidence that an appropriate intervention requires not only an approach that leads to the modification of eating habits, but assists in the quality of life. There is a lack of studies that have monitored for more than six months adolescents with excess of weight according to a multidisciplinary treatme…
Previous studies of this research group and other researchers have shown that protein-energy malnutrition is linked to the development of non-communicable diseases in adulthood such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension. The physiological mechanisms involved in this association remain unknown. One hypothesis that has been discussed is that these diseases occur, among other factors, becaus…
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