Pediatric Obesity
Prevention key to reducing prevalence of childhood, adolescent obesity
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 28th, 2003
With the number of children and teenagers who are overweight increasing at an alarming rate, and effective and lasting weight loss difficult to achieve, preventing obesity will play an important role in decreasing its prevalence, according to Jack A. Yanovski, MD, PhD, head of the Unit on Growth and Obesity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and Susan Z. Yanovski, MD, director, obesity and eating disorders program, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
The authors wrote an editorial published in the April 9, 2003, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"The proportion of...
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