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Fed up! : winning the war against childhood obesity /
Once dismissed by the medical profession as a purely cosmetic problem, obesity represents an ominous health threat for our children. Obesity is now second only to smoking as a preventable cause of death. Without early intervention, overweight children often become overweight adults - and we know tha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Joseph Henry Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Once dismissed by the medical profession as a purely cosmetic problem, obesity represents an ominous health threat for our children. Obesity is now second only to smoking as a preventable cause of death. Without early intervention, overweight children often become overweight adults - and we know that at any age obesity can lead to diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, and other life-threatening conditions. Diabetes and heart disease alone cause more than 780,000 deaths each year. In fact today's kids may be the first generation in U.S. history to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-299) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0309545625 9780309545624 9780309141338 0309141338 |