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Recommended Terminology Change for Adolescent BMI Percentiles
Posted on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
In an article entitled, “Expert Committee Recommendations Regarding the Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity: Summary Report,” published in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, recommendations are made by an expert committee regarding the prevention, assessment, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adolescent children. One [...]
Shaping Food Preference and Taste of Young Children:
Posted on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
“We are What We Eat” this old Indian saying can accurately describe the current situation facing most of the world. As it states we are what we eat, meaning eating high fat, high sugar unhealthy food will make us fat, unhealthy people. In turn, this will lead to increasing number of obesity-associated diseases such as [...]
Eating Disorders: The Other Side of Weight Associated Problems
Posted on Monday, June 4th, 2007
Bad eating habits can lead to many diseases and unhealthy consequences. While the majority of the stress and efforts are being oriented towards “obesity” treatment and prevention, other weight associated problems referred to as Eating Disorders are of outmost importance. This is a major source of concern since prevalence of Eating Disorders is increasing in [...]
Physically Active youth: Raising a generation beyond our health problems
Posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2007
The benefits of physical activity and the harms of sedentary lifestyle are very well documented through many studies and observations leading to intensive campaigns promoting physical fitness throughout all age groups Childhood and adolescence are crucial developmental periods preparing and shaping adult behavioral and health status. Healthy lifestyle behaviors, whether dietary or physical, should be [...]
Overweight in Adolescence: Can Therapeutic Drugs Help?
Posted on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Childhood and adolescent obesity causes diseases such diabetes, high blood lipids and high blood pressure. It also increases the risk for these diseases along with cardiovascular complications in adulthood. These serious complications explain the amount of interest and effort geared towards the prevention and treatment of adolescent obesity. Because of this critical period in a [...]
Nutrition Myths and Facts
Posted on Friday, March 16th, 2007
In this era of nutrition interest and daily emergence of weight loss products and weight loss protocols, we are bombarded of many nutrition related popular misconceptions and myths. Here are some of the most common diet and nutrition myths and their corresponding real facts. Myth: Certain foods, like grapefruit, celery, or cabbage soup, can burn [...]
Extra Television watching comes with extra pounds on our kids’ waistline
Posted on Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
“Parents, schools and even health care providers should be thinking more critically about TV watching,” Dr. Fleming-Moran said. “Some doctors have even written prescriptions for their younger patients to reduce their TV watching.” As prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity is witnessing a sharp increase, researchers are trying to identify the major causes of this [...]