“…From the latter perspective, health is conceived as the product of a broad range of factors, including food and nutrition, consistent with the comprehensive definition of health as a right, as laid out in Brazil's 8 th National Health Conference in 1986 52 . However, this expanded health promotion approach has also fostered at least two distinct types of proposals: those based on the disease or disease-prevention paradigm, backed by risk-factor epidemiological models, and others that operate through a social/environmental approach, focused on building healthy environments and the spread of universal health-friendly processes 53,54 . These two watersheds have influenced the approaches to obesity while suggesting distinct definitions of the problem and the ways to deal with it.…”