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Obesity prevention and the primary care pediatrician's office

Author(s) -

Eliana M. Perrin,

Joanne Finkle,

John T. Benjamin

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

current opinion in pediatrics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.817

H-Index - 87

eISSN - 1080-8116

pISSN - 1040-8703

DOI - 10.1097/mop.0b013e328151c3e9

Subject(s) - medicine , motivational interviewing , overweight , childhood obesity , obesity , family medicine , breastfeeding , primary care , screen time , medline , pediatrics , physical activity , physical therapy , nursing , intervention (counseling) , political science , law

The obesity epidemic confronts the pediatrician every day in the office. Pediatricians should help curb the epidemic through prevention and the usual pediatric primary care tasks of screening, communication and anticipatory counseling. This review highlights findings from recent literature to guide office-based prevention of obesity in children.

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