Childhood Obesity
Subtitle: Contemporary Issues (Society for the Study of Human Biology)
Contributors: Noel Cameron (Editor); N. G. Norgan (Editor); G.T.H. Ellison (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: July 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780849328572
Subjects: Metabolism; Paediatric medicine; Medical; Endocrinology & Metabolism; Medical / Nursing; Public Health; Pediatrics; Engineering - Mechanical; Medical / Epidemiology; Congresses; Epidemiology; Obesity in children
First sentence: The inexorable rise in the prevalence of obesity in adults over the past few decades, followed more recently by a similar rise in children, has been alarming enough in its own right.