The prevalence of obesity and overweight children of all ages is increasing. There are many factors that can lead to obesity in children, all of which must be considered and understood before an effective strategy can be implemented to tackle the problem. Evidence from the Health Development Agency recommends the focus of research should be redirected to look at the effectiveness of prevention ...

Obesity is the most common childhood disease and is widely acknowledged as having become a global epidemic. Well-recognized health consequences of childhood obesity exist, both during childhood and adulthood, affecting health and psychological and economic welfare. The importance of finding effective strategies for the management of childhood obesity has international significance with the publ...

Annual weight and height measurements taken in schools have been recommended as part of the drive to reduce childhood obesity. But with few school nurses to carry out such checks, the proposals have proved controversial.

This paper addresses the proposition that even though there appears to be unanimity on the biomedical diagnosis of obesity, it is insufficient or not precise enough, since it is necessary to know more about the consequences of different lifestyles in ways of eating and the impact of lifestyles on the health of the population. Therefore, the paper reflects on how the biomedical ideation of obesi...

BACKGROUND In developed countries, there is abundant information on the epidemic of childhood obesity, but only a few studies on trends in the dual burden of body weight (overweight and thinness). OBJECTIVE To examine trends in overweight and thinness among 9-10-year-old Spanish children in the last decade. METHODS Data were taken from cross-sectional studies on schoolchildren in Cuenca (Sp...

The National Center for Health Statistics estimates that 16.9% of children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years are obese.1 Thesemost recent data follow a trend in increased prevalence of overweight or obesity that has spanned the last 30 years.1 The public’s perception of the gravity of childhood obesity as a health threat mirrors national prevalence data. In a recent poll, 81% of respondents id...

The majority of US youth are of healthy weight, but the majority of US adults are overweight or obese. Therefore, a major health challenge for most American children and adolescents is obesity prevention-today, and as they age into adulthood. In this report, we review the most recent evidence regarding many behavioral and practice interventions related to childhood obesity, and we present recom...