TITLE

Childhood Obesity: Time for Action, Not Complacency

AUTHOR(S)

Styne, Dennis Michael

PUB. DATE

February 1999

SOURCE

American Family Physician;02/15/99, Vol. 59 Issue 4, p758

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Editorial

ABSTRACT

Editorial. Discusses childhood obesity in the United States. Epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States; Morbidity in childhood obesity; Treatment of obesity in children; Importance of a nationwide population-based approach to the prevention of childhood obesity.

ACCESSION #

1605091

Tags: OBESITY in children;  CHILDREN -- Diseases

 

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