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- Title
Etiology, Treatment and Prevention of Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence: A Decade in Review.
- Authors
Spruijt-Metz, Donna
- Abstract
Childhood obesity has become an epidemic on a worldwide scale. This article gives an overview of the progress made in childhood and adolescent obesity research in the last decade, with a particular emphasis on the transdisciplinary and complex nature of the problem. The following topics are addressed: 1) current definitions of childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity; 2) demography of childhood and adolescent obesity both in the US and globally; 3) current topics in the physiology of fat and obesity; 4) psychosocial correlates of childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity; 5) the three major obesity-related behaviors, i.e. dietary intake, physical activity and sleep; 6) genes components of childhood and adolescent obesity; 7) environment and childhood and adolescent obesity; and 8) progress in interventions to prevent and treat childhood obesity. The article concludes with recommendations for future research, including the need for large-scale, high dose and long-term interventions that take into account the complex nature of the problem.
- Publication
Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 2011, Vol 21, Issue 1, p129
- ISSN
1050-8392
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1532-7795.2010.00719.x