Imagine this front-page news story: "SARS epidemic infects 60 million Americans with economic losses exceeding $1 trillion. In response, the government announces a massive public health campaign, industr...
Obesity in children aged 11 to 12 y in Cyprus. Significant increase during the last 8 y Pediatriki 2000 63: 137–144 (in Greek) Google Scholar Dietz WH . The obesity epidemic in young children. (Editorial.) Br Med J 2001 322: 313–314. Article CAS Google Scholar Barlow SE, ...
1To stop the childhood-obesity epidemic(流行),health experts have long urged parents to make healthychanges to their family's lifestyle, such as eatingnutritiously, reducing TV time,exercising and getting agood night's sleep.These behaviors have been linked to a lower riskof obesity in kids, ...
Discusses concerns on the growing epidemic of childhood obesity in the U.S. Increase in the number of children and teenagers who are overweight; Threat of the excess weight in the life expectancy of Americans; Difficulty of determining whether a child is obese; Causes of obesity in children....
U.S. Childhood Obesity Epidemic: Treatment and Prevention Weight Loss Drugs: What Are Your Options? Which Drugs Cause Weight Gain? Treatment options Medications for Weight Loss (Obesity/Overweight) Care guides Obesity Obesity in ChildrenFurther information ...
46 The childhood obesity epidemic has important implications for type 2 diabetes risk during the life course because of possible increases in type 2 diabetes during young adulthood. If cumulative exposure to obesity in childhood is associated with early onset of type 2 diabetes, then health care ...
Approximately 22 million children under 5 years of age are overweight ... RJ Deckelbaum,CL Williams - 《Obesity Research》 被引量: 594发表: 2001年 The obesity epidemic. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with 35.1% of adults being classified as obese. Obesity ...
although is not an ideal model to assess adiposity in single children or groups, it has a greater sensitivity in identifying children and adolescents with overweight and obesity, in a period of particular seriousness of the pediatric obesity epidemic in Italy. On the contrary, the Italian BMI thr...
New research has indicated that obesity in children has quite different causes at different ages. The research, led by the University of Exeter Medical School and part of the internationally respectedEarlyBird Study, could have far-reaching implications for attempts to reduce the global epidemic of ...
Furthermore, statements of commitment from parents and teachers should be obtained early on in therapy. If this strategy is further promoted by insurance companies, programs such as the Freiburg Intervention Trial for Obese Children (FITOC) may be successful in battling this weighty epidemic....