CV Lattes
Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Educação Física from Escola Superior de Educação Física de Goiás (1980), master's at Fitness from Universidade de São Paulo (1993) and ph.d. at Nutrition from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (1996). Has experience in Nutrition, acting on the following subjects: obesidade, exercício, nutrição, ratos and tecido adiposo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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| Big gains with small weight loss |
| Grandes beneficios con una pequeña pérdida de peso |
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Obesity is characterized as a complex, multifactorial and chronic disease, with biological and social consequences that trigger several comorbidities that decrease quality and life expectancy. Increasing numbers of with obesity suggest the development of lifestyle interventions designed to regulate the energy balance that often clash with motivational problems, environmental and personal…
Obesity is a chronic disease of increasing prevalence, being currently considered a global epidemic, including children, adolescents, adults and the elderly of different nationalities and ethnicities, socioeconomic levels, education levels. Non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions, such as physical exercise and fitness healthy eating strategies, seem to be increasingly studied and re…
The prevalence of obesity is steadily growing in many parts of the world in order to reach epidemic proportions. Changes in signaling pathways state of hunger and satiety contribute to the increase in obesity and metabolic syndrome. Currently, the white adipose tissue, also is considered a secretory tissue by producing numerous adipokines involved in a chronic state of inflammation, which…
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It is well recognized that obese individual's present elevated risk for hypertension, precoce markers for cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, labored breathing, increased risk of fractures and psychological changes. It is also known that obesity modifies the concentrations of adipokines such as interleukins 6 and 10, leptin, adiponectin and TNF-α- Nevertheless, no evidences w…
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| 2 / 1 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
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