%A Tanya D Whitehead
%J Online Journal Of Health And Allied Sciences
%T Combating The Obesogenic Environment: Helping Children Hold Onto Health
%X 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.
%N 4
%K Childhood obesity, Obesogenic environment, Control
%E Dr. Srinivas Kakkilaya
%V 6
%D 2008
%I Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya
%L cogprints5931