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Category Weight Loss, Weight Control,
Slimming, Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, Dieting, Diets,
Obesity, Health and Fitness, ...
Study
finds link between individual stress and adolescent obesity
Stress may indeed be a direct contributor to childhood
obesity. That's according to a new Iowa State University
study finding that increased levels of stress in
adolescents are associated with a greater likelihood of
them being overweight or obese. Journal of Adolescent Health 05 09
Fast
food and soft drinks may be making children fatter but
they also make them happy. Programs aimed at tackling
childhood obesity, by reducing children’s
consumption of unhealthy food and drink, are
likely to be more effective if they also actively seek to
keep children happy in other ways, according to
Professor Hung-Hao Chang from National Taiwan University
and Professor Rodolfo Nayga from the University of
Arkansas in the US. Their findings are published in
Springer’s Journal of Happiness Studies.
The authors conclude: “Our findings suggest that
consumption of fast food and soft drinks can result in a
trade-off between children’s objective (i.e. obesity) and
subjective (i.e. unhappiness) well-being. Policies and
programs that aim to improve children’s overall health
should take these effects on children’s objective and
subjective well-being into account to facilitate the
reduction in childhood obesity without sacrificing
children’s degree of happiness.”
Chang HH & Nayga RM (2009). Childhood
obesity and unhappiness: the influence of soft drinks and
fast food consumption. Journal of Happiness Studies
DOI 10.1007/s10902-009-9139
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The
'clean plate club' may turn children into overeaters
Preschoolers whose parents forced them to clean their
plates, ate 41 percent more snacks when at school. Part of
this is because preschool snack time was one place where
they could regain control of what they ate. Unfortunately,
it was for the worse and not the better.
Cornell Food & Brand Lab 03 09
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Children's
National convenes first childhood obesity symposium
Clinicians, policy leaders and scientists gathered to
discuss transnational, clinical and community research
successes in childhood obesity prevention and treatment
The Obesity Institute at Children's National Medical Center
gathered experts from many disciplines to share ideas,
failures and successes, and the future promise of prevention
and intervention strategies to fight childhood obesity.
12 08
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"The UK Public
Health Association (UKPHA) is appalled that some UK
paediatricians are proposing that doctors call in social
workers to deal with obesity, or even that obese children
should be taken into care. This typical response from
clinically-based specialists shows a horrifying ignorance of
the underlying causes of obesity –which has its roots in the
social, environmental and economic fabric of society. This
major public health issue cannot be dismissed as merely a
failure of parental care.
The UKPHA wholeheartedly supports the Royal College of
Paediatrics and Child Health in their call to treat
childhood obesity as a public health issue rather than a
child protection issue.
Attempting to tackle the issue by sending in social workers,
or taking children into care, can only add to the problems
already faced by families. Although parents have a
responsibility to provide a healthy life-style for their
children, the wider obesogenic environment in which they
live has a large impact on the choices that parents may
make.
Dr Heema Shukla, Chair of the UKPHA’s Special
Interest Group on Food and Nutrition, argues
that
“Doctors as Practice Based Commissioners should look to
commission a multi-component, structured intervention
programme to support families with obese children to change
their life-styles.
‘This would accord with the guidance on obesity issued by
NICE, the National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence, which suggests a multi-component intervention
that includes diet, behavioural change and physical
activity.
‘Social workers as a profession are not equipped with the
necessary skills nor trained to deal with obesity. Currently
structured programmes that incorporate these guidelines
developed by experts in the field are available for the NHS
to support families with obese children.”
The simultaneous news that over 150 children have vanished
whilst in the care of South East local authorities alone
over the last three years is a stark reminder that taking
children away from families –even where there may be genuine
child protection issues– does not solve the problem. Bowing
to a practice employed by a few clinicians unable to grasp
the wider and complex issues related to obesity can be
damaging to the profession, the family and in particular the
child. When will common sense prevail?"
06 07, UKPHA
Concise
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Copyright, 2009: KK
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