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January
NEWS:
DRINKING OUR WAY TO OBESITY
BUILT ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENT TRAINING (BEAT) INSTITUTE 2008
RESEARCH:
THE ANNALS, VOLUME 615, ISSUE 1 "THE EPIDEMIC OF CHILDHOOD
OVERWEIGHT"
T his
special issue of
The Annals
is dedicated to
exploring the topic of childhood overweight and obesity. It
brings together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in
a forum designed to identify the contexts of a child’s life that
help to determine weight status, including the home, the
community, and the school, as well as the larger contexts of
children’s development influenced by media and culture. The
authors are health care practitioners, social scientists,
philanthropists, advocates, and policy makers.
view the articles...
View the
entire journal on SAGEJOURNALS Online
CANCER INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY IN RELATION TO BMI IN THE MILLION
WOMEN STUDY: A COHORT STUDY
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February
NEWS:
FARMERS MARKETS
PHYSICAL FITNESS IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE: A POWERFUL MARKER
OF HEALTH
OKLAHOMA CITY MAYOR PUTS CITY ON A DIET
RESEARCH:
HEAD TO HEAD: IS THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC EXAGGERATED?
The UK health
secretary declared last week that we are in the grip of an
obesity epidemic.
Patrick Basham
and John Luik believe that the problem is less clear cut,
but R W Jeffery and N E Sherwood say that obesity
is a growing global problem. These articles
are a debate examining the two sides of opinions regarding
the exaggeration of the obesity epidemic.
View the YES arguments (Patrick Basham & John Luik)
View the NO arguments (RW Jeffery & N E Sherwood)
A META-ANALYSIS OF PEDOMETER-BASED WALKING INTERVENTIONS AND
WEIGHT LOSS
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