Childhood Obesity

  • Childhood Obesity: Prevention and Treatment
    By Jana Parizkova, Andrew Hills

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  • Childhood Obesity: Factors Affecting Physical Activity
    By Cynthia A. Bascetta

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  • Childhood Obesity: A Biobehavioral Perspective
    By Norman Kretchmer

    Effects of parental involvement in behavioral weight loss therapy for preadolescents . Behavior Therapy , 15 , 485-500 . Kolbe , L. J. , Green , L. W. , Foreyt , J. , Darnell , L. , Goodrick , K. , Williams , H. , Ward ...

  • Childhood Obesity
    By Denise E. Wilfley, John R. Best, Jody Cahill

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  • Childhood Obesity: Ethical and Policy Issues
    By Kristin Voigt, Stuart G. Nicholls, Garrath Williams

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  • Childhood Obesity: Ethical and Policy Issues
    By Kristin Voigt, Stuart G. Nicholls, Garrath Williams

    Stamatakis, E., Primatesta, P., Chinn, S., Rona, R., & Falascheti, E. (2005). Overweight and obesity trends from 1974 to 2003 in English children: What is the role of socio-economic factors?Archives ofDisease in Childhood, 90(10), ...

  • Childhood Obesity: Causes, Consequences, and Intervention Approaches
    By Michael I. Goran

    The book features information on contributing factors to obesity, including developmental origins, social/family, birth cohort studies, influence of ethnicity, and global perspectives.

  • Childhood Obesity
    By Maxine Newman Jimerson

    Nearly 1 in 5 school-age children and young people in the United States has obesity. This must-have volume offers insight into childhood obesity, its effects, and treatment options available.

  • Childhood Obesity: Contemporary Issues
    By Gerard Hastings, Noël Cameron, George Ellison

    Childhood Obesity: Contemporary Issues provides an up-to-date account of the increase of obesity in children, its causes, and its prevention. The expert editorial panel has chosen contributors with consider

  • Childhood Obesity
    By Jacqueline Langwith

    Student researchers and readers will find this book easily accessible through its careful and conscientious editing and a thorough introduction to each essay.

  • Childhood Obesity: Prevalence, Pathophysiology, and Management
    By Rexford S. Ahima

    This book presents childhood obesity trends across multiple demographics and discusses the contributing genetic and environmental factors.

  • Childhood Obesity: Risk Factors, Health Effects, and Prevention
    By Carol M. Segel

    This book presents current research in the study of childhood obesity, including physical activity promotion programs to thwart childhood obesity; physiological and psychosocial risk factors in childhood obesity; and the ethnic differences ...

  • Childhood Obesity: Ethical and Policy Issues
    By Kristin Voigt, Stuart G. Nicholls, Garrath Williams

    This co-authored book is the first to focus on the ethical and policy questions raised by childhood obesity and its prevention.

  • Childhood Obesity
    By Tamara Thompson

    This book examines the role of government, the responsibilities of parents, the health care costs of childhood obesity, fast food and food marketing, as well as physical activity as it relates to childhood obesity.

  • Childhood Obesity: Causes, Prevention and Management
    By Roya Kelishadi

    This book is written with collaboration of international experts with different scientific backgrounds, who contributed in gathering the updates and findings from their experience on how to deal with the complex factors related to childhood ...

  • Childhood Obesity: Prevalence, Pathophysiology, and Management
    By Rexford S. Ahima

    Obesity in childhood is associated with a wide range of serious health complications and an increased risk of premature illness and death later in life. This book presents childhood obesity trends across

  • Childhood Obesity: Most Experts Identified Physical Acitivity and the Use of Best Practices as Key to Successful Programs
    By Cynthia A. Bascetta

    Obesity - related health expenditures are estimated to have accounted for more than 25 percent of the growth in ... and Physical Activity ( IMPACT ) Act® and the Childhood Obesity Reduction Act . 9 You asked us to provide information on ...

  • Childhood Obesity
    By Tamara Thompson

    This book examines the role of government, the responsibilities of parents, the health care costs of childhood obesity, fast food and food marketing, as well as physical activity as it relates to childhood obesity.

  • Childhood Obesity: The Declining Health of America's Next Generation : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Children and Families of the...
    By Education, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Labor

    Childhood Obesity: The Declining Health of America's Next Generation : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Children and Families of the...