Abstract This Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Position Paper reports current evidence on
pediatric overweight and obesity prevention interventions and discusses implications for …

Childhood obesity is a major public health challenge across Latin America and the United
States. Addressing childhood obesity depends on valid, reliable, and culturally sensitive …

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 …

La obesidad infantil es un grave problema de salud pública en Latinoamérica y Estados
Unidos y para luchar contra ella se precisan instrumentos de medición válidos y fiables y …

This paper arises from a series of workshops held by the National Collaborative on
Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) 1 and summarizes priorities and next steps for …

The relation among the various causal factors of obesity is not well understood, and there
remains a lack of viable data to advance integrated, systems models of its etiology. The …

The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), a public− private
partnership of 4 leading childhood obesity research funders—the Centers for Disease …

Methods Medical students participating in 6-week, summer, rural clinical experiences
offered the survey to caregivers of children 0–23 months, born at term as singletons without …

Introducción: Durante muchos años la desnutrición azotó a gran parte de los niños
peruanos, para combatirla se crearon programas como el Programa Nacional de …