In the above mentioned article the authors were given in the wrong order. The correct order should have been Pilar Arnaiz, Johana Soto-Sánchez, Juana Saavedra, Angélica Domínguez, Jaime Rozowski, Laura Iriarte, Jennifer Cantwell Wood and Francisco Mardones. Additionally, Johana Soto-Sánchez’s affiliation was given incorrectly, it should have read: 3 Department of Physical Education, Faculty of ...

OBJECTIVE Report long-term outcomes of the NOURISH randomized controlled trial (RCT), which evaluated a universal intervention commencing in infancy to provide anticipatory guidance to first-time mothers on "protective" complementary feeding practices that were hypothesized to reduce childhood obesity risk. METHODS The NOURISH RCT enrolled 698 mothers (mean age 30.1 years, SD = 5.3) with heal...

BACKGROUND Understanding social disparities in obesity are presently an essential element in establishing public health priorities. However, the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity has not been assessed in rural Northwest China. This study aims to explore the effect of SES on overweight/obesity and abdominal obesity by gender and age in rural Northwest China. METHODS A ...

research on critical periods in development and early introduction of carbohydrates that has immediate implications on pediatric obesity. Are high carbohydrate diets protective for obesity, or do they lead to obesity? There is often a wide gap between basic science and clinical science, and clinical science can benefit from clinical investigators paying closer attention to advances in basic sci...

Estimation of the prevalence and secular trends in paediatric obesity in Europe is impeded by methodological problems in the definition of obesity and the paucity of data sets that mirror the demographic, cultural and socioeconomic composition of the European population. The available prevalence data show that paediatric obesity is increasing throughout Europe but the patterns vary with time, a...

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In response to a nationwide rise in obesity, several states have passed legislation to improve school health environments. Among these was Arkansas's Act 1220 of 2003, the most comprehensive school-based childhood obesity legislation at that time. We used the Multiple Streams Framework to analyze factors that brought childhood obesity to the forefront of the Arkansas legislative agenda and resu...

BACKGROUND Dog ownership is a catalyst for physical activity in adults. Given 50-70% of Australian households with children have a dog, dog-facilitated physical activity may be an effective way to increase physical activity and decrease child obesity. OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that children with a family dog walk more, are more physically active and are more likely to achieve recommended leve...

OBJECTIVE To determine parental willingness-to-pay (WTP) for childhood obesity prevention. METHODS Cross-sectional data from the follow-up measurements (2011) of a health promotion programme in German primary schools. Data collection included anthropometric measurements of children and self-administered questionnaires for parents, including WTP assessment. Mann-Whitney U-Test was used for dif...