Preventing childhood obesity in early care and education settings: lessons from two intervention studies

RUNNING HEAD: PREVENTING CHILDHOOD OBESITY THROUGH NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION 1 Preventing Childhood Obesity Through Nutritional Education

Preventing childhood obesity: Contributions from the social sciences to intervention.

Programming and implementation of health policies for the prevention of overweight and obesity have traditionally focused on the dissemination of specific messages identifying healthy foods and pointing out the importance of physical activity. Despite recurrent efforts, the prevalence of obesity in both adult and children populations continues to rise. The configuration of preventive proposals ...

Preventing early childhood caries: lessons from the field.

Early childhood caries (ECC) is a significant public health concern affecting millions of high-risk families with young children. The purpose of this article is to present the proceedings from a May 2005 national forum, convened in Washington, DC, by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, which brought together representatives of 14 ECC program...

Early Childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons From Sesame Street

Sesame Street was introduced in November 1969 as an educational, early childhood program with the explicit goal of preparing preschool age children for school entry. Early studies found sizable short-term effects on test scores that are comparable to the documented effects of other early childhood education programs. In this project, we provide additional evidence of the effects of children’s e...

Promoting Language and Literacy in Early Childhood Care and Education Settings