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Child-Adolescent Nutrition and Overweight

NEWS:

Eating Food Away from Home Contributes to Excess Weight in Many School-Age Kids

Eating Out Poses Health Risks for Kids

Obesity in Children: A Role for Tough Love

ARTICLES:

Focus On Childhood Obesity

Internet Program and Videos Net Nutritional Benefits for Kids

Measures taken in New South Wales to address childhood obesity following the New South Wales Childhood Obesity Summit.

NGC-Bariatric surgery for severely overweight adolescents: concerns and recommendations.

NGC-Evaluation and treatment of childhood obesity.

The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Are household factors putting immigrant Hispanic children at risk of becoming overweight: a community-based study in eastern North Carolina. (J Community Health)

Body mass index and parent-reported self-esteem in elementary school children: evidence for a causal relationship. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Body mass index in primary and secondary pediatric hypertension. (Pediatr Nephrol)

Changes in food group consumption patterns from childhood to young adulthood: the Bogalusa Heart Study. (J Am Diet Assoc)

Child nutrition in developing countries. (Pediatr Ann)

[Childhood obesity--towards effectiveness] (J Pediatr (Rio J))

Children grow and horses race: is the adiposity rebound a critical period for later obesity? (BMC Pediatr)

Children's food consumption during television viewing. (Am J Clin Nutr)

Cholesterol (and cardiovascular risk) in adolescence. (Curr Opin Pediatr)

[Current problems in determining children's nutritional needs] (Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz)

Development of a questionnaire to measure quality of life in families with a child with food allergy. (J Allergy Clin Immunol)

Dietary factors are not associated with high levels of obesity in New Zealand Pacific preschool children. (J Nutr)

Effect of television advertisements for foods on food consumption in children. (Appetite)

Efficiency of breastfeeding as compared to bottle-feeding in very low birth weight (VLBW, <1.5 kg) infants. (J Perinatol)

"Everything in my lunchbox is healthy - except for the spoon. and the chocolate.". (Asia Pac J Clin Nutr)

[Factors associated with obesity in school children] (J Pediatr (Rio J))

Fatty acid composition of fats is an early determinant of childhood obesity: a short review and an opinion. (Obes Rev)

Food Advertising and Marketing Directed at Children and Adolescents in the U.S. (International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity)

Food Consumption by Children and the Risk of Childhood Acute Leukemia (American Journal of Epidemiology)

Fortifying food with folic acid improves folate intake in German infants, children, and adolescents. (J Nutr)

Freiburg Intervention Trial for Obese Children (FITOC): results of a clinical observation study. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Fruit and vegetable consumption and bone mineral density: the Northern Ireland Young Hearts Project. (Am J Clin Nutr)

Fruit and vegetable intakes are an independent predictor of bone size in early pubertal children (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

Gene-gene interaction between PPAR gamma 2 and ADR beta 3 increases obesity risk in children and adolescents. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Greek adolescents, fitness, fatness, fat intake, activity, and coronary heart disease risk. (Arch Dis Child)

Habitual physical activity and physical activity intensity: their relation to body composition in 5.0-10.5-y-old children. (Eur J Clin Nutr)

Hepatic steatosis in obese Chinese children. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

High prevalence of insulin resistance in postpubertal Asian Indian children is associated with adverse truncal body fat patterning, abdominal adiposity and excess body fat. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Increased kidney growth in formula-fed versus breast-fed healthy infants. (Pediatr Nephrol)

Infant colic and feeding difficulties. (Arch Dis Child)

Inflammation, insulin, and endothelial function in overweight children and adolescents: The role of exercise. (J Pediatr)

Insulin Sensitivity Among Obese Children and Adolescents, According to Degree of Weight Loss (PEDIATRICS)

Iodine supplementation for preventing iodine deficiency disorders in children. (Cochrane Database Syst Rev)

Iron supplementation brings up a lacking P300 in iron deficient children. (Clin Neurophysiol)

Is Late Bottle-Weaning Associated with Overweight in Young Children? Analysis of NHANES III Data. (Clin Pediatr (Phila))

Issues in establishing vitamin D recommendations for infants and children (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

Linking obesity and activity level with children's television and video game use. (J Adolesc)

Long-term consumption of infant formulas containing live probiotic bacteria: tolerance and safety. (Am J Clin Nutr)

Massive obesity in adolescents: dietary interventions and behaviours associated with weight regain at 2 y follow-up. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Measuring the 'obesogenic' food environment in New Zealand primary schools. (Health Promot Int)

Metabolic risk in early childhood: the EarlyBird Study. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

New insights into the field of children and adolescents' obesity: the European perspective. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Overweight and obesity epidemic among children. Answer from European countries. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Parental feeding attitudes and styles and child body mass index: prospective analysis of a gene-environment interaction. (Pediatrics)

Parents are key players in the prevention and treatment of weight-related problems. (Nutr Rev)

Parents' awareness of overweight in themselves and their children: cross sectional study within a cohort (EarlyBird 21) (BMJ)

Preschool child care and risk of overweight in 6- to 12-year-old children. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Psychological Adjustment of Obese Youth Presenting for Weight Management Treatment. (Obes Res)

Obese Japanese children have low bone mineral density after puberty. (J Bone Miner Metab)

Obesity and the metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents. (N Engl J Med)

Obesity in children. Tackling a growing problem. (Aust Fam Physician)

Overweight Children and Adolescents: A Risk Group for Iron Deficiency (PEDIATRICS)

Parent-child feeding strategies and their relationships to child eating and weight status. (Obes Res)

Physical activity and cardiovascular disease risk factors in children and adolescents: an overview. (Can J Cardiol)

Physical activity, leisure habits and obesity in first-grade children. (Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil)

Position of the American Dietetic Association: Dietary guidance for healthy children ages 2 to 11 years. (J Am Diet Assoc)

Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among healthy adolescents. (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med)

Preventing and treating obesity in girls and young women to curb the epidemic. (Obes Res)

Preventing childhood obesity by reducing consumption of carbonated drinks: cluster randomised controlled trial. (BMJ)

Prevention and treatment of overweight in children and adolescents. (Am Fam Physician.)

Protein intake at 9 mo of age is associated with body size but not with body fat in 10-y-old Danish children. (Am J Clin Nutr)

Rapid increase in the prevalence of obesity in elementary school children. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Relation of serial changes in childhood body-mass index to impaired glucose tolerance in young adulthood. (N Engl J Med)

Relationships between media use, body fatness and physical activity in children and youth: a meta-analysis. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Snack food intake does not predict weight change among children and adolescents. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

The diagnosis of borderline iron deficiency: results of a therapeutic trial. (Arch Dis Child)

The relationship between parental factors at infancy and parent-reported control over children's eating at age 7. (Appetite)

The use of anthropometry in the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Tracking of physical activity, fitness, body composition and diet from adolescence to young adulthood: The Young Hearts Project, Northern Ireland (International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity)

Vitamin K, bone turnover, and bone mass in girls. (Am J Clin Nutr)

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