Background Obesity is a growing problem even in very young childhood, resulting in high
costs for individuals and society. As a response, numerous obesity prevention and …

Background While obesity has been shown to be difficult to treat in school aged children and
in adolescence, promising results have been detected for children who started treatment in …

Childhood obesity worldwide affects 5.6% or 38.3 million children under five years of age.
The longer children are overweight or obese, the more likely they are to become obese …

Background: With the rising prevalence of childhood obesity over the last several decades,
and the call for more family-based intervention research to combat childhood obesity, it is …

Objective: To identify effective programs to prevent or treat overweight among 2‐to< 6‐year‐
old children. Research Methods and Procedures: We searched six databases to identify …

Background The prevalence of childhood obesity, which has seen a rapid increase over the
last decade, is now considered a major public health problem. Current treatment options are …

Childhood obesity trends have increased dramatically over the past three decade's. The
purpose of this quantitative systematic review is to provide an update of the evidence …

Objectives The study aims to assess the effects of family‐based interventions targeted to
parents only or to parents‐and‐child for the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity …

The small number and recency of the early childhood obesity‐prevention literature identified
in a previous review of interventions to prevent obesity, promote healthy eating, physical …

Objective To assess the evidence for interventions designed to prevent or reduce
overweight and obesity in children younger than 2 years. Data Sources MEDLINE, the …