Childhood obesity
Subtitle: risk factors, health effects, and prevention
By: editor, Carol M. Segel
Publisher: Nova Science
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781617619823
Subjects: Obesity in children; Obesity; Obesity in adolescence; Adolescent; Child
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The importance of physical activity in a lofty pediatric obesity context / Benjamin C. Guinhouya; title: Contribution of physiological and psychosocial risk factors combined with sedentary lifestyles to overweight and obesity : prospects for prevention / Pouran D. Faghri, Cynthia Adams, Lindsey Ferrero; title: The prevalence of overweight and obesity and related metabolic abnormalities among children and adolescents in China / Zhijie Yu, Gang Hu, Xilin Yang; title: Ethnic differences in pediatric obesity and the metabolic syndrome / Zeena Salman, Mark D. DeBoer; title: Migrant status - an important risk factor for developing obesity during childhood / Sylvia Kirchengast; title: Promotion of healthy lifestyles to prevent obesity in school children / Elena Centis, Rebecca Marzocchi, Giulio Marchesini; title: Using real-time data capture methods to investigate children's physical activity and eating behaviors / Genevieve Fridlund Dunton; title: Effects of schoolyard's attributes on childhood obesity / Isabel Mourão-Carvalhal, Eduarda Coelho; title: A gender-structured random model for understanding adulthood obesity / Francisco J. Santonja, Rafael J. Villanueva, Lucas Jodar; title: Nutrition education in school-based childhood and adolescent obesity prevention programs / Melinda J. Ickes; title: Child obesity in global perspective : emergent risks related to social status, urbanism, and poverty / Alexandra Brewis, Mary C. Meyer.