childhood obesity: a global public health crisis

Childhood obesity: public-health crisis, common sense cure.

During the past two decades, the prevalence of obesity in children has risen greatly worldwide. Obesity in childhood causes a wide range of serious complications, and increases the risk of premature illness and death later in life, raising public-health concerns. Results of research have provided new insights into the physiological basis of bodyweight regulation. However, treatment for childhoo...

Childhood obesity: global issues.

The eating disorders are a group of situations which are very complex that include abnormal feeding patterns, too much worry about the physical aspect, no real perception of the body image and a strong link between all these factors and the levels of self-esteem (Fairburn & Harrison 2003, Sigel 2008, American Academy of Pediatrics 2010, Dalle Grave 2011). From the '50s of the previous century w...

Childhood obesity, unrecognised public health challenge in Nepal.

Most of emphasis in the past years had been allotted to alleviation of poverty and undernutrition in the children of Nepal. The concept of being bigger is healthier had been the conviction among the population. But it is being obliterated gradually in most part of the world because of rapid emergence of childhood obesity in the last two decades. The childhood obesity has now recognized as a glo...

Childhood obesity: bringing children's rights discourse to public health policy.

Childhood obesity is widely understood as a public health issue, but is not commonly understood from a legal perspective. Children's rights discourse can add significant empowerment to public health-based policy, which alone lacks effectiveness in the face of commercial and other counteracting influences. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has the potential to be used by a...

Public perceptions of childhood obesity.

BACKGROUND Obesity has been identified as an epidemic by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rates of unhealthy body weight among children and adolescents have tripled since the 1980s to 15%. Media coverage of obesity has also increased, and the public is now highly aware of obesity-related health threats facing adults and children. METHODS RTI International sponsored a representa...

Floods in Pakistan: a public health crisis.