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Tackling childhood obesity: Diet, physical activity or lifestyle change?
Author(s) -
Poskitt Elizabeth ME
Publication year - 2005
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.1651-2227.2005.tb01906.x
Subject(s) - medicine , nature versus nurture , obesity , childhood obesity , physical activity , environmental health , gerontology , energy (signal processing) , physical therapy , endocrinology , overweight , statistics , genetics , mathematics , biology
THe present day, almost worldwise, fattening of children is widely attributed to both excessive energy intake and reduced physical activity. However, treatments which only focus on reducing energy intakes and increasing energy expenditures rarely show long‐term success. The family attitudes and environments which contribute to energy imbalance and the development of obesity are virtually unchanged by many treatment programmes. We need to learn more about the nuture of those children who retain normal fatness although eveloped by obesity‐promoting environments.