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Childhood obesity – are we dealing with it appropriately?

Author(s) -

M. G. Sathiadas

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

jaffna medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2651-0200

pISSN - 0379-3877

DOI - 10.4038/jmj.v28i2.48

Subject(s) - obesity , psychological intervention , childhood obesity , life style , medicine , set (abstract data type) , gerontology , psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , environmental health , endocrinology , computer science , overweight , programming language

Obesity in children is on the rise and many countries have taken initial steps to prevent this epidemic. According to the theory of epigenetics the risk of obesity can be passed from one generation to the next, because of behavioural and/ or biological factors. Over the last years there has been more interest to explain the trans-generational diseases with the theory of epigenetics. Identifying an underlying cause for obesity is important but majority of the time it is the change in lifestyle.

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