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Childhood Obesity - Causes, Consequences, and Intervention Approaches (Paperback)
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Childhood Obesity - Causes, Consequences, and Intervention Approaches (Paperback)
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Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United
States and continues to increase in prevalence in almost all
countries in which it has been studied, including developed and
developing countries around the globe. The causes of obesity are
complex and multi-factorial. Childhood obesity becomes a life-long
problem in most cases and is associated with long term chronic
disease risk for a variety of diseases including type 2 diabetes,
cardiovascular disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, as well
as psychosocial as issues and obesity seems to affect almost every
organ system in the body. In recent years there has been tremendous
progress in the understanding of this problem and in strategies for
prevention and treatment in the pediatric years. Childhood Obesity:
Causes, Consequences, and Intervention Approaches presents current
reviews on the complex problem of obesity from the multi-level
causes throughout early life before adulthood and the implications
for this for long-term disease risk. It reviews numerous types of
strategies that have been used to address this issue from
conventional clinical management to global policy strategies
attempting to modify the global landscape of food, nutrition, and
physical activity. Each chapter is written by a global authority in
his or her respective field with a focus on reviewing the current
status and recent developments. The book features information on
contributing factors to obesity, including developmental origins,
social/family, birth cohort studies, influence of ethnicity, and
global perspectives. It takes a life-course approach to the subject
matter and includes exhaustive treatment of contributing factors to
childhood obesity, such as assessment, environmental factors,
nutrition and dietary factors, host factors, interventions and
treatment, consequences, and further action for future prevention.
This broad range of topics relevant to the rapidly changing field
of childhood obesity is suitable for students, health care
professionals, physicians, and researchers.
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