Childhood obesity risk factors, health effects, and prevention / editor, Carol M. Segel.

Other author Segel, Carol M.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science,
Descriptionxi, 204 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Contents The importance of physical activity in a lofty pediatric obesity context / Benjamin C. Guinhouya -- Contribution of physiological and psychosocial risk factors combined with sedentary lifestyles to overweight and obesity : prospects for prevention / Pouran D. Faghri, Cynthia Adams, Lindsey Ferrero -- The prevalence of overweight and obesity and related metabolic abnormalities among children and adolescents in China / Zhijie Yu, Gang Hu, Xilin Yang -- Ethnic differences in pediatric obesity and the metabolic syndrome / Zeena Salman, Mark D. DeBoer -- Migrant status - an important risk factor for developing obesity during childhood / Sylvia Kirchengast -- Promotion of healthy lifestyles to prevent obesity in school children / Elena Centis, Rebecca Marzocchi, Giulio Marchesini -- Using real-time data capture methods to investigate children's physical activity and eating behaviors / Genevieve Fridlund Dunton -- Effects of schoolyard's attributes on childhood obesity / Isabel Mourão-Carvalhal, Eduarda Coelho -- A gender-structured random model for understanding adulthood obesity / Francisco J. Santonja, Rafael J. Villanueva, Lucas Jodar -- Nutrition education in school-based childhood and adolescent obesity prevention programs / Melinda J. Ickes -- Child obesity in global perspective : emergent risks related to social status, urbanism, and poverty / Alexandra Brewis, Mary C. Meyer.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010036033
ISBN9781617619823 (hardcover)
ISBNebook

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