Childhood obesity and diabetes has become major public health concerns worldwide. Efforts to promote healthy lifestyles focus solely on the individual's eating habits, often ignoring the rest of the picture.
The idea that nutrition is the only reference point for diseases such as diabetes and obesity creates a gap in the detection and promotion of health, which subsequently affects the treatment and management of these diseases.
A person's health, especially in children, is often influenced by their environment, parents, friends, what they see in the media, where they live, their socioeconomic status, and their emotional and social health.
Knowing this, we can not only provide better treatment for these diseases but also promote health at a level that is not just physical or focused on nutrition. We can learn to see health as a set of circumstances that vary depending on each person's context.
It is obvious that there should be at least a few characteristics that the population we are studying will present equally, but they will not be to the same extent or have the same prevalence. We cannot overlook the characteristics that our population shares. Identifying patterns in physical and social behaviors will highlight differences in the environment that condition the same disease.
