| Description |
xi, 204 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Metabolic diseases - laboratory and clinical research series |
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Public health in the 21st century |
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Metabolic diseases--laboratory and clinical research series.
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Public health in the 21st century series.
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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 H. Adams -- 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 J'odar -- Does this study inform policy? Examination of leading childhood obesity journals' instructions to authors regarding policy-related research and implications / Sheila Fleischhacker ... [et al.] -- Nutrition education in school-based childhood and adolescent obesity prevention programs / Melinda J. Ickes, Manoj Sharma -- Child obesity in global perspective emergent risks related to social status, urbanism, and poverty / Alexandra Brewis, Mary C. Meyer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Obesity in adolescence.
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Obesity in children.
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Obesity.
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Adolescent.
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Child.
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Adolescent.
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Child.
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Obesity.
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| Author |
Segel, Carol M.
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| LC no. |
2010036033 |
| ISBN |
1617619825 (hardcover) |
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9781617619823 (hardcover) |
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