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Interventions for childhood overweight and obesity: a place for parenting skills.(LEADING ARTICLE)
(See the paper by Golley et al., pages 144-50)
Concern about levels of obesity (1) could almost be described as a current panic in child health in our community. After a period in which it seemed impossible to obtain funds for obesity research, particularly for projects looking at overweight and obesity in children, the subject is now 'hot'; it is hard to look at the media without a mention of the topic and gratifying to see funds available for both prevention approaches and intervention trials. There is still a long way to go for the answers to be in place, and a single approach may never be suitable for a multidimensional problem. (2) This emphasises the need ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Interventions for childhood overweight and obesity: a place for...