The effectiveness of a school-based programme to reduce obesity The rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity has prompted research into ways of preventing obesity, particularly among children.
Schools offer a potentially ideal channel for communicating a preventive programme.
This study examines the effectiveness of a school-based intervention programme to reduce obesity in children. Message Very interestingly, the programme successfully reduced obesity in girls, but not in boys, highlighting the need for research to investigate whether girls and boys need different approaches for tackling obesity. This study also highlights the need for much more research in the design and implementation of successful school programmes to reduce obesity. It also adds further evidence that reducing television viewing has an important role to play in reducing overweight in children. Reference SL Gortmaker et al.