Over the last years, many actions have been implemented in the Canadian province of
Quebec to prevent health issues related to diet, physical activity and obesity. As a new …

Earlier this year the BMC portfolio was enriched by a new journal BMC Obesity. Here, we
present the aims and objectives of the section on Lifestyle and Community Interventions …

Background The assessment of real-life, community-based interventions to tackle obesity is
an important step in the development of effective policies. Especially multi-level …

Background Interest in community-based interventions (CBIs) for health promotion is
increasing, with a lot of recent activity in the field. This paper aims, from a state government …

Objective Obesity is the single biggest public health threat to developed and developing
economies. In concert with healthy public policy, multi‐strategy, multi‐level community …

There is widespread acceptance that a significant and sustained impact on the growing
global obesity burden requires implementation of a range of health policies to influence the …

Community-based initiatives (CBIs) that build capacity and promote healthy environments
hold promise for preventing obesity and non-communicable disease, however their …

This paper explores why Canadian government policies, particularly those related to
obesity, are 'stuck'at promoting individual lifestyle change. Key concepts within complexity …

While the causes of obesity are well known traditional education and treatment strategies do
not appear to be making an impact. One solution as part of a broader complimentary set of …

Background In most high-income countries, we eat too much. Looking around the world, it
seems that obesity parallels economic development. Within countries, there is a more mixed …