TY - GEN
ID - cogprints5931
UR - http://cogprints.org/5931/
A1 - Whitehead, Tanya D
Y1 - 2008/01/24/
N2 - Given the unprecedented global incidence of overweight in children, the issues that potentially create and sustain a circumstance of epidemic childhood overweight, and the efforts that are underway to prevent and remediate childhood overweight need to be examined. The article explores potentially interrelated causes of obesity/overweight in children and their families, and describe efforts underway to remediate environmental correlates through direct intervention, legislation and a shift in public policy.
PB - Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya
KW - Childhood obesity
KW - Obesogenic environment
KW - Control
TI - Combating The Obesogenic Environment: Helping Children Hold Onto Health
AV - public
ER -