obesity prevention
Development of measures to evaluate youth advocacy for obesity prevention
... for obesity prevention is availability of ...for obesity prevention [1] and relevant published measures from other fields, when ...youth obesity prevention advocacy program, ...
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Obesity Prevention In Urban Settings: Creating Healthy Environments
... and Obesity Prevention, housed in the College of Health and Human Development, at California State University, Fullerton promotes interdisciplinary research and community outreach in areas related to health ...
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Systematic Review of Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Studies
... childhood obesity prevention programs on pri- mary or secondary weight ...prevent obesity or overweight in chil- dren, regardless of the design of the study (ie, RCT or ...
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A Systematic Review of Home-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Studies
... METHODS: We searched Medline, Embase, PsychInfo, CINAHL, clinical- trials.gov, and the Cochrane Library from inception through August 11, 2012. We included experimental and natural experimental studies with $ 1-year ...
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Assessing parental self-efficacy for obesity prevention related behaviors
... and Prevention) to encourage primary care providers to address them during primary care visits as part of health maintenance and obesity prevention ef- forts ...
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The Promise of Early Childhood Self-Regulation for Obesity Prevention
... for obesity prevention, future studies should include objective measures where assessors are blind to study condition, which was not the case in the current study, and should explore overall self-regulation ...
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Recruitment results among families contacted for an obesity prevention intervention: the Obesity Prevention Tailored for Health Study
... Additional strengths of this study include our ability to obtain socio-demographic and clinical information for participants and non-participants alike, and use of a Microsoft Access database to accurately track ...
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Obesity prevention and intervention: what's happening in the East Midlands?
... A plethora of guidelines have been published by NICE (8-13) and other organisations (4, 14-16) on the structure, content and delivery of obesity prevention and treatment services. The recommendations ...
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Childhood obesity: prevention is better than cure
... Abstract: Obesity and its associated comorbidities have emerged as a major health problem garnering interests from both public health agencies and mainstream media ...manage obesity is now being recognized ...
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An Early Feeding Practices Intervention for Obesity Prevention
... This is the first report of a long-term follow-up of an RCT evaluating an obesity prevention intervention that targeted feeding practices and started in the first year of life. Mothers allocated to the ...
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Faith based Institutions as Venues for Obesity Prevention
... of obesity and its conse- quences ...global obesity prevalence set to reach 18% in men and more than 21% in women ...the prevention of obesity and related diseases ...for obesity ...
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A qualitative examination of home and neighborhood environments for obesity prevention in rural adults
... Home and neighborhood nutrition environments are also important in obesity prevention by virtue of the greater availability of some foods than others, shared food prep- aration and meal patterns [19,20]. To ...
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Childhood Obesity: Prevention & Intervention
... Although there are many potential ways to influence children’s eating habits, parents have been found to have a particularly influential role (Munsch, HasenBoehler, Michael, Meyer, Roth, Biedert, & Margraf, 2007; ...
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Obesity prevention in children and young people: what policy actions are needed?
... to obesity prevention and to the many other health and educational benefits of such physical activity ...in obesity prevention, given correct program specification and as part of a ...
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Information sources for obesity prevention policy research: a review of systematic reviews
... of obesity prevention policy and are not necessarily generalizable to other health policy or public health ...of obesity prevention policy that we did not iden- tify, either in these resources ...
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An ecological and theoretical deconstruction of a school-based obesity prevention program in Mexico
... The aim of this paper was to assess the integration of eco- logical principles and theoretical constructs involved in a successful school-based obesity prevention program in Mexico City. We sought to unpack ...
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HOP'N after-school project: an obesity prevention randomized controlled trial
... Finally, HOP ’ N was a public health effectiveness trial that had limited direct investigator team contact and eco- nomic input into the community. The Georgia FitKid intervention included aspects of an efficacy trial, ...
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Targeting Sleep, Food, and Activity in Infants for Obesity Prevention: An RCT
... METHODS: This community-based, randomized controlled trial allocated 802 pregnant women ( ≥ 16 years, <34 weeks’ gestation) to: control, FAB (food, activity, and breastfeeding), sleep, or combination (both ...
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On the Prevention of Obesity and a Philosophy for Healthy Living
... of obesity is already higher than 50% in today’s adults in the majority of our countries! But behavior of this dis- ease across these variables is far from being ...of obesity, more than half of them were ...
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The Role of the Pediatrician in Primary Prevention of Obesity
... Most of what was discussed in the previous section on individual/ clinical approaches to obesity prevention will also bene fi t school- aged children. However, some aspects are particularly relevant in this ...
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