Childhood Obesity

By Mediplex Doctors
Mediplex Health News
Reviewed by Dr. Sharma MD


US First Lady Mrs. Obama has initiated early intervention campaign to eradicate obesity.
Janet Wojcicki, PhD, MPH, UCSF assistant professor of pediatrics, and Melvin Heyman, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics and chief of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at UCSF Children’s Hospital, discuss how ‘Let’s Move’ will impact obesity problem in New England Journal of Medicine.

Mediplex India has also introduced ‘Let’s Move Quickly’ in school obesity program in 2010, and outlined anti-obesity strategies. These include children to engage in physical activity, yoga, reading & understanding food labels to avoid high calorie foods.

According to Mediplex campaign in New Delhi, have shown that these interventional strategies do have the potential to alter the course of the childhood obesity epidemic to some extent. "These types of behavioral and nutrition interventions in schools or within the home have only limited success in preventing weight gain in children," the authors say. "Obesity prevention must start as early as possible, since school-age children already have an unacceptably high prevalence of obesity and associated medical conditions."



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