Obesity poses one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century, creating
serious health, economic, and social consequences for individuals and society. Despite …

As the emphasis on preventing obesity has grown, so have calls for interventions that extend
beyond individual behaviors and address changes in environments and policies. Despite …

In 2001, former Surgeon General David Satcher's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease
Overweight and Obesity (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2001) gave …

This chapter briefly outlines the known or suspected risk factors for (and correlates of)
obesity, summarizes a recently proposed 3-tiered obesity prevention approach, reviews …

The statistics are alarming. Over the past decades we have watched the weight levels of the
US population shift steadily upward. Media coverage of obesity conveys a continuing sense …

There is an extensive research base on obesity treatment and on the health benefits of
weight loss, but relatively little research has focused on obesity prevention. This article …

Obesity prevention is caught between the demands for action because obesity is a rapidly
rising epidemic with serious health consequences and the demands that the programs …

One-third of adults are now obese, and children's obesity rates have climbed from 5 to 17
percent in the past 30 years. The causes of the nation's obesity epidemic are multi-factorial …

To battle the obesity epidemic in America, health care professionals and policymakers need
relevant, useful data on the effectiveness of obesity prevention policies and programs …

Only a limited number of effective obesity prevention interventions are available for use in
public health. One approach to expanding the base of available evidence is to draw on …