Abstract
(1) Background: Worldwide, public health policies focus on studying dietary patterns and the related anthropometric changes in children. Their aim is to improve the measures meant to reduce global malnutrition rates. Our goal was to study the main changes in the inflammatory status related to anthropometric changes and total daily energy intake. (2) Methods: We tested the study hypothesis by analyzing serum IL-6 and IL-8 levels, cholesterol and triglycerides values, as well as total proteins and creatinine levels, RMR, and food journals in a sample of 160 healthy subjects aged between 6 and 12 years old. (3) Results: IL-6 was correlated with the skinfold values. Changes in the skinfolds were significantly correlated with total proteins and triglycerides. Both weight for age and height for age were related to the skinfold values. Through the BMR measurements, peak carbohydrate metabolism changed significantly based upon IL-6 values, which were significantly correlated with the respiratory coefficient values. Based on the basal metabolic rate, an increased IL-8 ratio was related to the RQ value. (4) Conclusions: Skinfolds have been significantly correlated with IL-6 and IL-8 levels. With changes in body weight, we encountered differences in both serum cholesterol and serum triglycerides values, unlike total proteins and creatinine, which failed to change.
Highlights
Worldwide, public health policies focus on studying dietary patterns and related anthropometric changes in children [1,2]
Through the basal metabolic rate (BMR) measurements, peak carbohydrate metabolism changed significantly based upon interleukin 6 (IL-6) values, which were significantly correlated with the respiratory coefficient values
Based on the basal metabolic rate, an increased interleukin 8 (IL-8) ratio was related to the RQ value
Summary
Public health policies focus on studying dietary patterns and related anthropometric changes in children [1,2]. The aim is to improve the measures meant to reduce global malnutrition rates. The methods implemented so far have generally been unsuccessful, because the rate of malnutrition is constantly increasing in young individuals. Based on the World Health Organization’s report for 2016, 18% of children aged between 5 and 19 years old were diagnosed with obesity, while in 2020, 38.9 million children aged under 5 years old were overweight and 45.4 million were malnourished. In cases of children aged under 5 years, in Europe, the obesity rate has increased from 3 million to 3.2 million during the last 20 years [3,4]. The risk of insulin resistance, type two diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, and hyperuricemia will increase, affecting life quality and life expectancy [5]
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