| Description |
292 pages : illustrations ; 24cm |
| Series |
California studies in food and culture ; 13 |
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California studies in food and culture ; 13
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| Contents |
Introduction: Our Overweight Kids -- How We Meet a Growing Epidemic -- 1. Coming to Terms -- 2. Gauging Obesity's Toll -- Why Kids Are Getting Fatter -- 3. Family Matters -- 4. At Home -- 5. Beyond the Home -- How We Can Fight the Epidemic -- 6. Nurturing Healthy and Active Lifestyles -- 7. Reaching and Keeping a Healthy Weight -- 8. Slowing the Vicious Cycle of Fat Discrimination -- 9. Mobilizing to Help Our Overweight Children -- App. 1. Body-Mass Index by Height and Weight -- App. 2. Body-Mass Index by Age |
| Summary |
"The United States is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions: children are gaining weight more rapidly and at younger ages than ever before. Poised to become the most obese generation of adults in history, today's children are turning up at doctor's offices with an alarming assortment of "grown-up" maladies, from type 2 diabetes to high blood pressure. This book takes a clear-eyed look at what's behind the statistics and diagnoses, and considers what can be done about the major health crisis threatening American children." "At once authoritative and nontechnical, compassionate but no-nonsense, Our Overweight Children is a welcome prescription for treating the most dire problem threatening our children's health and our nation's future."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, pages 243-272 |
| Subject |
Overweight children -- United States.
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Obesity in children -- United States.
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Obesity.
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Child.
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Obesity -- prevention & control.
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| LC no. |
2003026339 |
| ISBN |
0520246667 |
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0520225740 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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