Teens' obesity, noise and sleep deprivation: A perverse liaison. Let's move beyond “movida”

Fatty liver disease and lifestyle in youngsters: diet, food intake frequency, exercise, sleep shortage and fashion

“…We previously reported an increased occurrence of physical ailments, such as headache, in youngsters (34) in association with overweight-obesity, and that the deregulation of a regular sleep-wake rhythm (35), i.e. sleep shortage related to night leisure time and the concurrent environmental noise (36), are both factors that appear to enhance different extremes of nutritional behaviour, and particularly obesity (36). In the present report we also followed a different approach and investigated some factor associated with fatty liver.…”

Neglected features of lifestyle: Their relevance in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

“…Marketing strategies focus much on some related aspects that have an influence on nutrition and physical activity, but also with trade repercussions, while neglecting and avoiding other modes of social behavior. Some of these factors, such as sleep duration[7,8], the sleeping patterns[9-12], including shift-work related effects[7], exposure to noise[13,14], the level of social alarm about events or situations[15], the possibility of urban mobility[16,17], may have determinant effects on nutritional profiles and exercise implementation. Communication and perception of risks, as traditionally recognized, are flanked by communication and induction of apparently neutral behavior that can behave as true risk factors for disease.…”

“…All this would be irrelevant, except that, as in the case of prevention of obesity and fatty liver, and probably also in the field of atherosclerotic, neurodegenerative and cancer diseases, dietary caloric intake and a sedentary lifestyle are not the only factors exerting independent synergistic effects[6]. In fact, even the dietary profiles[19], methods of exercise implementation[20,21], and other related factors, such as sleep deprivation[4], D vitamin deficiency and exposure to sunlight[22], environmental noise[16], and reasonably also others, seem to be part of an interrelated group of neglected risk factors, which only now are beginning to be studied more methodically.…”

Sustainable medical research by effective and comprehensive medical skills: overcoming the frontiers by predictive, preventive and personalized medicine

“…This is a paradigm of comprehensive PPPM aimed at the management of a recognized, but actually scarcely implemented, societal and clinical topic. Environmental factors, even in the urban context, are important and can be studied with a close link with severe disease and risk factors, including excessive leisure nightlife— mala - movida —and excessive exposure to leisure noise; the link between sleep deprivation, noise exposure and the more commonly considered unhealthy habits is one of the possible new frontiers of medical intervention in any age but mainly in youngsters [44,45]. The lasting approach of our research group with a focus on lifestyle intervention and assessment linked with an affordable strategy of early diagnosis is well itemized by the work-up for the assessment of juvenile-adolescent hypertension (Figure 10).…”