Our Overweight Children : What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do to Control the Fatness Epidemic /

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The United States is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions: children are gaining weight younger and faster than ever before. With the prospect of becoming the most obese generation of adults in history, they are already turning up with an alarming assortment of "grown-up" maladies...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dalton, Sharron
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Övervikt hos barn.
Obesite chez l'enfant > États-Unis.
Enfants obeses > États-Unis.
Obesidade (prevenção e controle) > Estados unidos.
Crianças > Estados unidos.
Obesidade > Estados unidos.
Übergewicht
Prävention
Kind
Fettsucht
Overweight children.
Obesity in children.
Children.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Children's Health.
MEDICAL > Pediatrics.
children (people by age group)
Enfants.
Enfants en surpoids > États-Unis.
Child
Obesity > prevention & control
Obesity in children > United States.
Overweight children > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Coming to terms
  • Gauging obesity's toll
  • Family matters
  • At home
  • Beyond the home
  • Nurturing healthy and active lifestyles
  • Reaching and keeping a healthy weight
  • Slowing the vicious cycle of fat discrimination
  • Mobilizing to help our overweight children.

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