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  -