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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCES AND NUTRITION
Volume 72, Issue 5, Pages 653-659Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09637486.2020.1852193
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Obesity; carotenoids; metabolic syndrome; visceral fat
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Childhood and adolescent dysmetabolic obesity is a major challenge for healthcare systems worldwide, with recent studies suggesting a potential role for carotenoids in the management of obesity.
Dysmetabolic obesity during childhood and adolescence currently represents one of the greatest therapeutic challenge for healthcare systems worldwide. The global rates of obesity have more than doubled in the last 30 years. Recent meta-analysis from national surveys and food composition studies suggest an inverse association between lower carotenoid levels and the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in the general population, independent of serum retinol (vitamin A) levels. In children, two double-blind randomised placebo-controlled studies describing the effects of diet vs. mixed carotenoid supplementation on insulin resistance, adipokines and the rate of accrual of subcutaneous abdominal fat, implicate supplementation of these compounds to achieve targetable levels may be useful in the management of obesity accrual in this population. We will discuss the role of carotenoids and their conversion products (retinoids) in adipogenesis, lipolysis, insulin resistance and the pathophysiology of the metabolic syndrome and review the animal studies, which help support these findings.
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