CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Nutrição from Universidade de São Paulo (1971), graduate at Direito from Faculdade Integrada de Ensino de Osasco (1973), master's at Collective Health from Universidade de São Paulo (1982) and ph.d. at Collective Health from Universidade de São Paulo (1990). Has experience in Nutrition, focusing on Nutritional Analysis of Population, acting on the following subjects: nutrição, consumo alimentar, pirâmide alimentar, banca examinadora na usp and orientação de alunos. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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It was suggested that the vegetarian diets could have positive health effects, due to the reduction on the risk for Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases. This can positively modulate the biochemical patterns, mainly those related to blood glucose and lipids control, as well as to control body weight. Studies in adults have also shown that the diet can modulate molecular patterns. In this scen…
The project´s objective is to describe factors related to adolescents´ eating attitudes, such as determinants of food choice, to understand the role of family meals and its relation to their food consumption and nutritional status, to evaluate attitudes that can be related to eating disorders´ risk behaviors and body dissatisfaction and their interaction. In Brazil many studies were devel…
Introduction: Food choice process receives multiple influences, and can highlight the concern for health, the pleasure obtained through diet and the body dissatisfaction as important determinants of food consumption, and may also act as precipitating factor and maintainers of eating disorders. Objectives: To assess how the health concern and the seeking for pleasure through the diet diffe…
Background: The negative consequences of weight gain and the high likelihood to pediatric obesity track into adulthood, highlight the importance to target youth "at risk" for obesity. Objective: Evaluate the six-month intervention effect; investigate the weight behaviors that can mediate effects on weight and methodological and theoretical issues of the intervention. Methods: The "Healthy…
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