Book Review: Healthy Eating, Healthy Weight for Kids and Teens

Healthy Kids

Mediators of weight loss in the 'Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids' pilot study for overweight fathers

BACKGROUND A poor understanding of the specific lifestyle behaviors that result in weight loss has hindered the development of effective interventions. The aim of this paper was to identify potential behavioral mediators of weight loss in the Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids (HDHK) intervention for overweight fathers. FINDINGS The three-month intervention was evaluated in a randomized controlled tr...

Healthy Schools-Healthy Kids: a controlled evaluation of a comprehensive universal eating disorder prevention program.

This study was a controlled evaluation of a comprehensive school-based universal prevention program involving male and female students, parents, teachers, school administrators and local public health professionals. A total of 982 male and female Grades 6 and 7 middle school students (and 91 teachers/school administrators) completed self-report surveys at baseline on measures of body satisfacti...

Evaluation of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities.

Book Review: The Internet of Healthy Things

(IoT). The acronym IoT was coined in 1999 by Ashton [1], referring to the “networked interconnection of everyday objects, which are often equipped with ubiquitous intelligence” [2]. Currently, the number of devices connected to each other exceeds the entire population of the world, and such change has converted the concept of the internet from an “internet between people” to an “internet betwee...