Background: The incidence of obesity among adolescents is increasing. Text messages are
a primary communication form for adolescents and potentially a scalable strategy for …

Background Obesity is among the most significant health challenges facing today's
adolescents. Weight gain during adolescence is related to cardiovascular disease, type 2 …

Background: Extending contact with participants after the end of an initial weight loss
intervention has been shown to lead to maintained weight loss and related behavioral …

Background: Children are 5 times more likely to be overweight at the age of 12 years if they
are overweight during the preschool period. Objective: The purpose of this study was to …

Background: The use of text messages (short message service, SMS) to change physical
activity and sedentary behavior in youth is of interest due to the need for novel, more …

Background: Worksite nutrition and physical activity interventions are important to help
overweight and obese employees lose weight, but costs and insufficient sustained …

Background: The prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing in China, and the effect of
mobile phone short message service (SMS) interventions to prevent early childhood obesity …

Background: Weight gained in young adulthood often persists throughout later life with
associated chronic disease risk. Despite this, current population prevention strategies are …

Background: Mobile phone short message service (SMS) text messaging, has the potential
to serve as an intervention medium to promote sustainability of weight loss that can be easily …

Background: SMS text message–based interventions are a promising approach for reaching
and engaging high-risk youths, such as Hispanic adolescents with obesity, in health …