The contribution of obesogenic behavior on global warming

Background: obesogenic behaviors, unbalanced diet and sedentary behaviors are continuously rising in our society, posing serious threats to public health (1). Several studies analyzed the effects of how the obesogenic behavior exacerbating metabolic and pathological alterations supports pathological conditions (2,3,4) while little is known about the association between obesogenic behaviors and global warming. To address this relation, we performed a systematic review. Material and methods: obesogenic behavior, non-obesogenic behavior, obesity, GHG emissions, and adverse climate change were used to develop the research algorithm which was applied to four databases: including PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and EBSCO. The algorithm was refined and its sensitivity was tested on a pre-defined Golden Library. Results: The search yielded more than 36,000 results. Exploiting a pre-defined Golden Library, the refined search algorithm showed a sensitivity of approx 80%. Papers were retrieved in PubMed (4687), Scopus (9503), Web of Science (3416) and EBSCO (18898). The databases were explored without applying any limiting timeframe. Results were filtered to include only peer-reviewed results published in english. Only studies on humans were considered. The results have been screened to remove duplicates and preliminary assessment suggests that an association between obesogenic habits and global warming may exist. These results will be analyzed further to confirm this relation. Conclusions: our study will provide possible evidence of how preventing obesogenic habits may mitigate adverse climate change.