Background One third of US children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese.
Interventions to prevent obesity and thus avert threats to public health are needed. This …

Socioeconomically disadvantaged children experience a high burden of obesity but few
interventions address obesity prevention in this population subgroup. The Healthy Kids & …

Background Family-based interventions are efficacious at preventing and controlling
childhood overweight and obesity; however, implementation is often hindered by low parent …

Parent interventions for childhood obesity prevention have traditionally experienced low
participation rates or used passive methods such as newsletters. In contrast, the¡ Miranos …

Background Childhood obesity remains a serious public health concern. Community-based
childhood obesity treatment interventions have the potential to improve health behaviors …

Background Childhood obesity in rural communities is a serious but understudied problem.
The current experiment aims to assess a wide range of obesity risk factors among rural …

Purpose Despite public health efforts to reduce childhood obesity, there remains an unequal
distribution of obesity among rural and urban children, with higher rates in rural areas …

Background This study reports the outcomes of Communities for Healthy Living (CHL), a
cluster randomized obesity prevention trial implemented in partnership with Head Start, a …

Introduction: Childhood obesity is a multifaceted disease that requires sustainable,
multidimensional approaches that support change at the individual, community, and systems …

Background: To date there has been limited success with childhood obesity prevention
interventions. This may be due in part, to the challenge of reaching and engaging parents in …