SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2021
Natural environment and childhood obesity: A systematic review.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Impacts of climate change on childhood obesity: an updated systematic literature review.BMJ open · 2025Pooled it
- Waist circumference as a parameter in school-based interventions to prevent overweight and obesity - a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Natural environment and childhood obesity: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Environmental health during extreme heat: challenges for the practice of safe physical activity in childhood and adolescence.Cadernos de saude publica · 2026Review
- Is the neighbourhood environment associated with indicators of health in children and adolescents? Developing and testing a new proof-of-concept Healthy Environments Index for Children in Taranaki, New Zealand.International journal of health geographics · 2025Article
- Comprehending the Epidemiology and Aetiology of Childhood Obesity: Integrating Life Course Approaches for Prevention and Intervention.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2025Review
- Impacts of temperature and solar radiation changes in northern Europe on key population health behaviors: a scoping review of reviews.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2025Article
- Association between World Trade Center disaster exposures and body mass index in community members enrolled at World Trade Center Environmental Health Center.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2025Article
- Offspring's exposome: a narrative review on the influence of early-life factors on childhood obesity risk.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- FACILITY: feeding the family-the intergenerational approach to fight obesity, a cross-sectional study protocol.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- The Built Environment and Childhood Obesity.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2024Review
- Development and validation of an age-sex-ethnicity-specific metabolic syndrome score in the Chinese adults.Nature communications · 2023Article
- A Review of the Role of Built Environment and Temperature in the Development of Childhood Obesity.Cureus · 2023Review
- A review of factors influencing sensitive skin: an emphasis on built environment characteristics.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- Global human obesity and global social index: Relationship and clustering.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- A changed research landscape of youth's obesogenic behaviours and environments in the post-COVID-19 era.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Article
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Abstract
The associations between built and food environments and childhood obesity have been studied extensively. However, the association between the natural environment and childhood obesity has received too little scholarly attention. This study reviewed the literature published before 1 January 2019, which described associations between a full range of natural environmental factors (e.g., rainfall, temperature, sunlight, natural disasters, flood and drought) and weight-related behaviours and childhood obesity. Five cross-sectional studies and one longitudinal study were identified. Measures of natural environmental factors varied across six included studies, falling into five broad categories: weather conditions, altitude, natural disaster risk, air quality and day length. It was found that temperature was a significant weather indicator in most included studies and was associated with a reduction of daily physical activity. Children living in high-altitude areas were more likely to be shorter and heavier than their counterparts in low-altitude areas. Findings of this study will contribute to helping multiple stakeholders, including policy makers and urban planners, and formulate health policies and interventions to mitigate the detrimental impact of the natural environment on childhood obesity. More longitudinal studies should be designed to confirm these effects and explore the potential health effects of more natural environmental factors.
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