The Communities for Healthy Living program used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to empower Head Start parents in designing and pilot testing a multi-component family-centered obesity prevention program. One program component was a childhood obesity awareness campaign addressing common parental misconceptions about obesity. The campaign was designed by a community adviso...

AMA Kozioł-Kozakowska A, Wójcik M, Januś D, Starzyk J. The positive impact of lifestyle intervention on selected mio- and chemokines levels in prepubertal children with obesity. Pediatric Endocrinology Diabetes Metabolism. 2023. doi:10.5114/pedm.2023.127273. APA Kozioł-Kozakowska, A., Wójcik, M., Januś, D., & Starzyk, (2023). https://doi.org/10.5114/pedm.2023.127273 Chicago Agnieszka, Małgorzat...

Since the 1970s, the incidence of obesity has more than doubled for children 2 to 5 years of age and adolescents 12 to 19 years of age, and has more than tripled for children 6 to 11 years of age. The increasing numbers of overweight and obese children and youth has led federal policymakers to rank it as a critical health threat. The purpose of this review article is to raise awareness within t...

On January 16 and 17, 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation convened a forum of researchers and practitioners working on the issue of childhood obesity to discuss the issues related to surveillance, screening, and reporting of children’s BMI. Because obesity has become a major concern of the foundation, it seemed essential to understand the use and limitations of the BMI measurement on which...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Obesity is a major cardiovascular risk factor. In Spain, few studies have physically measured height and weight to estimate the magnitude of the problem. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of child and adolescent obesity in Spain in 2012. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional probability sample of 1018 children, representative of the Spanish pop...

Obesity, mainly childhood obesity, is a worldwide concern. Childhood obesity continues to adulthood, and it is associated with multiple noncommunicable diseases. One important aspect in the fight against obesity is prevention, the earlier, the better. Social marketing is a novel concept being increasingly used as an approach to address social problems and more and more included in the community...

In a recent report, the worldwide prevalence of childhood obesity was estimated to have increased by 47% between 1980 and 2013. As a result, substantial concerns have been raised about the future burden of cardiovascular (CV) disease that could ensue. The purpose of this review is to summarize and interpret (i) the evidence linking early life obesity with adverse changes in CV structure and fun...