Public health professionals from southern and eastern European countries (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Montenegro, Moldova, North Macedonia, Portugal and Ukraine) are promoting a stable isotope method to assess body composition following a four-year project to strengthen efforts to reduce the number of children who are overweight and childhood obesity, with IAEA support. Recently these rates have become high in European countries. Isotope techniques can help provide the information policymakers need to tackle it. They have been exploring the use of the deuterium dilution technique, which goes beyond the measure of weight and height by assessing the fat and fat free mass proportions of body weight.
To read more please visit:
Source: IAEA