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On Psychogenic Obesity in Children. III
Author(s) -
QUAADE FLEMMING
Publication year - 1953
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1953.tb05583.x
Subject(s) - psychogenic disease , medicine , argument (complex analysis) , obesity , etiology , childhood obesity , population , principal (computer security) , pediatrics , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , psychology , environmental health , overweight , pathology , endocrinology , computer science , operating system
Summary Accordingly my principal argument can be laid down as follows: 1) obesity in childhood must have an alimentary cause, 2) obesity in children seems to be a not very specific manifestation , provoked by such numerous incompatible and complicated psychological components as decide the attitude of the children and their surroundings concerning the taking and giving of food. Most important are the qualitative and quantitative dietary habits of the surroundings, and they are presumably founded on geography, ethnology, popular hygienics, and religion. 3) hence etiology should be sought in each separate case and therapeutic endeavours adapted accordingly; the latter probably aiming at nutrio‐hygienic instruction of the child and its surroundings, plus psycho‐therapeutic treatment in such cases where mental difficulties caused by obesity should require it. 4) Prophylactic measures against adiposity in childhood should presumably consist in intensified nutrio‐hygienic education of the population generally.