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Preventing childhood obesity : health in the balance / Committee on Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth, Food and Nutrition Board, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention ; Jeffrey P. Koplan, Catharyn T. Liverman, Vivica I. Kraak, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obesity in children--United States--Prevention.
- Obesity in children.
- Child health services--United States.
- Child health services.
- Nutrition policy--United States.
- Nutrition policy.
- Health promotion--United States.
- Health promotion.
- Obesity--prevention & control.
- Adolescent.
- Child.
- Health Policy.
- Health Promotion--methods.
- Social Environment.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Obesity--prevention & control.
- Adolescent.
- Child.
- Health Policy.
- Health Promotion--methods.
- Social Environment.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 414 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Children's health has made tremendous strides over the past century. In general, life expectancy has increased by more than thirty years since 1900 and much of this improvement is due to the reduction of infant and early childhood mortality. Given this trajectory toward a healthier childhood, we begin the 21st-century with a shocking development "an epidemic of obesity in children and youth. The increased number of obese children throughout the U.S. during the past 25 years has led policymakers to rank it as one of the most critical public health threats of the 21st-century. Preventing Childhood Obesity provides a broad-based examination of the nature, extent, and consequences of obesity in U.S. children and youth, including the social, environmental, medical, and dietary factors responsible for its increased prevalence. The book also offers a prevention-oriented action plan that identifies the most promising array of short-term and longer-term interventions, as well as recommendations for the roles and responsibilities of numerous stakeholders in various sectors of society to reduce its future occurrence. Preventing Childhood Obesity explores the underlying causes of this serious health problem and the actions needed to initiate, support, and sustain the societal and lifestyle changes that can reverse the trend among our children and youth.
- Contents:
- Extent and consequences of childhood obesity
- Developing an action plan
- A national public health priority
- Industry, advertising, media, and public education
- Local communities
- Schools
- Home
- Confronting the childhood obesity epidemic.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611878719
- 9780309133401
- 0309133408
- 9781281878717
- 1281878715
- 9780309531641
- 0309531640
- OCLC:
- 923274006
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