Rethinking Childhood Obesity: Novel Preventive and Treatment Strategies

Childhood Obesity Intervention Strategies :

With childhood obesity on the rise, schools are seeing the impact obesity has on academic progress and socialization of students. Overweight boys and girls were found to be the target of 2 bullying, negative rumors, verbal attacks, withdrawal of relationships, and loss in friendships. It was also reported that some overweight boys and girls also perpetrated physical acts of violence and bullyin...

Necessity of Rethinking about the Preventive Strategies of Addiction

Childhood obesity: successes and failures of preventive interventions.

Despite progress toward assuring the health of today's young population, the 21(st) century began with an epidemic of childhood obesity. There is general agreement that the situation must be addressed by means of primary prevention, but relatively little is known about how to intervene effectively. The evidence behind the assumption that childhood obesity can be prevented was discussed critical...

Rethinking Childhood

Novel preventive strategies for ventilator-associated pneumonia