The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lectures 2004 Perspectives on the Prevention of Childhood Obesity in Children and Youth (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Overview of Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance
Overview of Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance
Pages 5-14
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I think a striking aspect of the epidemic of obesity in children is that for most all of our lives we have lived in a period of continual advances in health and health outcomes, both for children and adults. We have had intermittent setbacks, some of them major, such as the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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The suburbia of Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best is not the suburbia that is currently being developed. The structure and the nature of community affect the health habits that directly lead to childhood obesity.
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The people who promote public transport are partners with us in public health in promoting physical activity and combating obesity. When I was in Boston, I went looking for stamps on Bromfield Street, which I collected.
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A highlight of my youth was being named to the safety patrol in the sixth grade. My single duty was to walk around and make sure the other children walked to school safely.
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I think, for all of us, it has been a learning experience over the last decade or so to realize that weight has a significant negative impact on a wide range of health parameters. It has also been a shock to realize that all segments of our population are becoming increasingly obese, especially children, and this change has occurred in an epidemic manner
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Obesity has crept up on us as a major public health problem, and it has left us, unfortunately in many instances, seeking simple and uni-dimensional causes and, thus, answers to the problem. We have seen frequent articles in the press or scientific papers that would make the case that one element or another is the cause of the obesity epidemic: carbonated, sugared beverages, vending machines, lack of physical education, nontraditional family structures, El Niño, liberals, immigration, or whatever.
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Tobacco is another example. If you were to examine the early days of anti-tobacco efforts, you would see the same kind or reactions we get now when we talk about childhood obesity: "Americans like to smoke;" "It is part of our culture;" "It is part of our economy;" "There are huge economic forces against it;" "That is just the way life is here;" or "You are trying to alter our sociocultural values by combating smoking." You will hear the same thing about the obesity epidemic, and we all should reject such statements.
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The report calls on the food, beverage, and entertainment industries to develop innovations related to healthier food and beverages. The report calls for changes in packaging and providing clear and consistent media messages about the energy contents.
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We either make the investment up front, which would be relatively modest, or we will pay huge prices down the road in health care costs. Of course, health care professionals have a role to play, much as they did in controlling tobacco or when pediatricians addressed injury prevention.
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She is also associate dean for health promotion and disease prevention. She has been working in this area for years and has been a very effective person on a wide range of government panels, including U.S.
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