Effective strategies to prevent obesity

Strategies to prevent childhood obesity must extend beyond school environments.

s f t M n February 9, 2010, First Lady Michelle Obama launched Let’s Move! (www.letsmove.gov), a campaign aimed at reversing childhood obesity rends within a generation. The campaign focuses on hree targets: providing more healthful food in schools, romoting physical activity, and making healthful food vailable to all Americans. These goalsmake sense. Levels f obesity may have reached a plateau...

Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance Policy Recommendations

The Alliance’s research and outreach efforts focus on informing decision makers in the public and private sectors on not only the magnitude of the problem, but possible pathways forward. Making progress requires a fundamental change in the way we talk about obesity with policymakers, health professionals and each other. As such, our work is grounded in a set of core principles that serve as the...

Resource Effective Strategies to Prevent and Treat Cardiovascular Disease.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of global deaths, with the majority occurring in low- and middle-income countries. The primary and secondary prevention of CVD is suboptimal throughout the world, but the evidence-practice gaps are much more pronounced in low- and middle-income countries. Barriers at the patient, healthcare provider, and health system level prevent the implement...

Strategies to prevent suicide.

Interventions to prevent childhood obesity.

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 86, Number 1 ◆ July 1, 2012 Clinical Scenario You have just completed the well-child examination of an eight-year-old boy with a body mass index (BMI) of 18.6 kg per m2 (90th percentile for age and sex). His parents recognize that he is overweight. You provide individual counseling in the office about optimal nutrition, increasing physical activity, and limiting screen t...