Could sport be part of pediatric obesity prevention and treatment? Expert conclusions from the 28th European Childhood Obesity Group Congress

Susanne Ring-Dimitriou; Peter Krustrup; Manuel J Coelho-E-Silva; Jorge Mota; Andera Seabra; Carla Rego; Artur Mazur; Elpis Vlachopapadopoulou; Margerita Caroli; Marie-Laure Frelut; Eva Erhardt; Anders Forslund; Ema Boyland; Daniel Weghuber; David Thivel

doi:10.1016/j.jshs.2019.01.007

Could sport be part of pediatric obesity prevention and treatment? Expert conclusions from the 28th European Childhood Obesity Group Congress

J Sport Health Sci. 2019 Jul;8(4):350-352. doi: 10.1016/j.jshs.2019.01.007. Epub 2019 Jan 18.

Authors

Susanne Ring-Dimitriou^{1

2}, Peter Krustrup³, Manuel J Coelho-E-Silva⁴, Jorge Mota⁵, Andera Seabra⁵, Carla Rego⁶, Artur Mazur^{2

7}, Elpis Vlachopapadopoulou^{2

8}, Margerita Caroli^{2

9}, Marie-Laure Frelut^{2

10}, Eva Erhardt^{2

11}, Anders Forslund^{2

12}, Ema Boyland^{2

13}, Daniel Weghuber^{2

14}, David Thivel^{2

15}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sport Science and Kinesiology, Paris Lodron-University, Salzburg 5020, Austria.
² European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG), Brussels 1000, Belgium.
³ Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, SDU Sport and Health Sciences Cluster (SHSC), University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5000, Denmark.
⁴ Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, University of Coimbra, Coimbra 3000, Portugal.
⁵ Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure (CIAFEL), Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Porto 4000, Portugal.
⁶ Hospital, Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto 4000, Portugal.
⁷ Pediatric Department, Clinical Provincial Hospital No. 2 in Rzeszów, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów 35-301, Poland.
⁸ Department of Endocrinology, Children's Hosp. P. & A. Kyriakou, Athens 10431, Greece.
⁹ Paediatric Department, Brindisi Hospital, Brindisi 72100, Italy.
¹⁰ Paediatric Practice, Albi 81000, France.
¹¹ Department of Paediatrics, University of Pécs, Pécs 7600, Hungary.
¹² Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala 74192, Sweden.
¹³ Appetite & Obesity Research Group, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZA, UK.
¹⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Obesity Research Unit, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg 5020, Austria.
¹⁵ Laboratory of the Metabolic Adaptations to Exercise under Physiological and Pathological Conditions, Auvergne Regional Center for Human Nutrition, Clermont Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand 63000, France.

Abstract

•Traditional sports might be considered as part of obesity treatments.•Traditional sports are interesting strategies for the prevention of pediatric overweight and obesity.•A fully adapted medical checkup is mandatory before considering the use of traditional sports for the treatment of pediatric obesity.•Making adaptations in the practice of traditional sports (duration, rules, dimensions of the field) offers possible opportunities for obesity treatment among children and adolescents.