childhood obesityfood environmentnudgesphysical activitypolicyprimary health careChildhood overweight is one of the most prominent global public health challenges today. The 2020 UNICEF-WHO- World Bank Group malnutrition estimates indicate that virtually no progress has been made in reducing the spread of ...
We need to ask ourselves why the United States has over 60% more obese children than other countries in the world. The childhood obesity issue is increasing at an alarming rate with over one-third of children from the ages of 5-17 being either obese or overweight. We’re already seeing d...
Bill Clinton: How to fight childhood obesityIn the early 1990s, fried foods, carbohydrates and desserts dominated Marybelle's high school lunch choices. Vending machines lined the school hallways, offering sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks. With limited healthy options, Marybelle unsurprising...KESQ...
In our society today, childhood obesity has become a more prevalent problem, which needs to be fixed. Children constantly eat and snack unhealthily and parents need to understand the importance of teaching children how food affects their body and well-being. Teaching this to children at an early...
Where there is a problem there is a solution. All we know that childhood obesity is an alarming problem in the United States. Many parents are concerned about this problem and their children’s health. To make our children safe, we have to think about the solutions for childhood obesity. ...
The underlying problem of childhood obesity is that parents aren’t paying adequate attention to what they feed their children. People aren’t consuming sufficient home-cooked foods and parents aren’t providing nutritious food and drink. Evidence claim that childhood obesity can shorten a person’s...
Dr. Richard Besser examines how the growing problem of childhood obesity is a personal issue and a community-wide problem.
Due to the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States, courts have begun addressing the issue of whether childhood morbid obesity is a life threatening condition, the existence of which violates states' child abuse and neglect statutes, and warrants state involvement in the form of removal ...
"Research that aims to reduce childhood obesity must now concentrate on finding ways of embedding effective interventions in health, education and care systems, so that we can make population-wide, long term impacts on the levels of obesity," says Waters. ...
How do we define or diagnose overweight and obesity in childhood? Medical journal of Australia, 173:S1-S17.Baur LA. How do we define or diagnose overweight and obesity in childhood? In: O'Connor HT, Eden BD, eds. Recommendations for Nutrition and Physical Activity for Australian Children [...