Childhood obesity: bringing children's rights discourse to public health...

Community Practitioner;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......pertaining to the issue of childhood obesity. This is because children's rights, as defined...By articulating childhood obesity as a children's rights issue--not...implemented. Key words Childhood obesity, children's rights, public...

Childhood obesity: bringing children's rights discourse to public health...

Community Practitioner;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......pertaining to the issue of childhood obesity. This is because children's rights, as defined...By articulating childhood obesity as a children's rights issue...implemented. Key words Childhood obesity, children's rights, public...

Childhood Obesity: University at Buffalo Experts Describe Research &...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  August 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ......who study childhood obesity: - Children are becoming...programs to obese children and their...to reverse childhood obesity. Quattrin...combating childhood obesity: - Health...should screen children for obesity...

Kaiser Family Foundation Releases New Report on Role of Media in Childhood...

PR Newswire;  February 24, 2004 ;     700+ words ......to reduce childhood obesity, through...encourage children to be active...options to children. The health...implications of childhood obesity are staggering...advertising on children and the relationship...media and childhood obesity. Obesity...

The role of social work in the childhood obesity epidemic.(COMMENTARY)

Social Work;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Childhood obesity is growing at...prevalence of obese children and adolescents...populations of children and adolescents...prevalence of childhood obesity can stem from a variety of reasons. Children are consuming...weekends, more children are resorting...contributors to ...

Childhood obesity's relationship to time spent in sedentary behavior

Military Medicine;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......sedentary behavior children participate in...association to childhood obesity. Methods: Questionnaires...BMI), 39.8% of children were obese. A...found between childhood obesity and computer usage...sedentary activity on childhood obesity has been sparsely...literature. ...

Kaiser Family Foundation Releases Report on Role of Media in Childhood...

AScribe Health News Service;  February 24, 2004 ;     700+ words ......to reduce childhood obesity, through...encourage children to be active...options to children. The health...implications of childhood obesity are staggering...advertising on children and the relationship...media and childhood obesity. Obesity...

SA: Children to be surveyed on childhood obesity

AAP General News (Australia);  March 11, 2004 ;     196 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 03-11-2004 SA: Children to be surveyed on childhood obesity ADELAIDE, March 11 AAP - Two thousand children will be surveyed as part of new South Australian research into childhood obesity. State Health Minister Lea Stevens said today the new work would ...

Childhood obesity: prevention, treatment and recommendations for health

Community Practitioner;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......at preventing childhood obesity has been conducted...primarily on children of primary school...prevention efforts on children with at least...in preventing childhood obesity, by establishing...patterns among children and for reducing...the European Childhood ...

Kaiser Family Foundation releases report on role of media in childhood...

Pediatric Nursing;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......rates of childhood obesity. The report...indicates that children who spend...to reduce childhood obesity, through...encourage children to be active...options to children. The health...implications of childhood obesity are staggering...

The rising epidemic of childhood obesity.(CURRENT ISSUES)

World and I;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Childhood obesity Overweight and obesity in children are significant...dramatically in children and adolescents...associated with childhood obesity were estimated...the causes of childhood obesity, and a discussion...The causes of childhood obesity are ...

Preventing childhood obesity: the nation must act now, or it will watch...

Issues in Science and Technology;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......affected more than others. Children in certain minority...Indians, and Hispanics), children in low-income families, and children in the country's southern...more than 9 million children over age 6 are considered...require ensuring that children maintain a proper energy...is clear: ...

Pupils take health to heart following work on childhood obesity ; Children...

Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  April 5, 2008 ;     503 words ...Children at an Exeter school are...on a project to tackle childhood obesity helped them change the...teachers to help convince children to be healthier. Children at Whipton Barton took...dads to explain what the children were being taught. "We...whether the project helps children ...

Childhood obesity

British Journal of Perioperative Nursing;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......increasing incidence of childhood obesity raised concern...that 18 million children under the age...of classifying childhood obesity; studies have...has also led to children been wrongly diagnosed...1995). Prevalence Childhood obesity is a ...

Feeding our children to death: The tragedy of childhood obesity in America

Journal of the National Medical Association;  February 1, 2003 ;     401 words ...We are loving our Children to death by FEEDING out children to death. As a bride in 1974, I was given a Bride...family and obesity." I was often ridiculed when my children were very young because I apportioned their food...n't have time to deal with the important. Unlike children, we manipulate words ...