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 ...
And while childhoodobesityis an incredibly complex issue that can have a multitude of different causes, there are some steps that parents can take to help their children maintain a healthy weight. Health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently outlined some of ...
Parenting is one of the most researched areas in the field of social science. No matter what your parenting style or what your parenting questions or concerns may be, from helping your child avoid becoming part of America's childobesityepidemic to dealing with behavior problems, experts can help...
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 [...
Of course, the main treatments for obesity are the obvious: more exercise and eating proper foods in moderate amounts. It’s important that there be a family effort to help your overweight child lose weight. Parents also need to lead by example; it’s much harder for a child to lose wei...
Fighting OffObesityWith Martial Arts Training Some of the ways martial arts training can help children to get past obesity include: 1) Provides A Fun, Physical Activity That Never Gets Boring Martial arts doesn’t just serve as a form of physical exercise; it also instills attention to detail...
Inform patients with obesity of the challenges to weight loss maintenance.Help patients understand that they may become more metabolically efficient with behavioral weight loss and have to ingest up to 300 fewer (or burn 300 more) calories as someone of the same weight who never had obesity just...
Obesity is the single greatest cause of early deaths after smoking.It results in more years of unhealthy life,diminishing the quality of life.It also increases many physical and mental health issues,from heart disease to diabetes (糖尿病) to cancer and depression. Recently,childhood obesity has ...
And with such high stakes, parents are unsure of what to do and how to help. On the one hand, they are afraid they will trigger an eating disorder if they say the wrong thing about their child’s weight. On the other hand, they have been warned that there is ...
in response to rising rates of youth obesity, many states began requiring schools to weigh students and measure their body mass index, or BMI. But years of research have shown that such screeningsdo not reducechildhood obesity. In fact, “all of the evidence points to it being harmful,”...