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Sandra L. Calvert is a developmental and child psychologist, whose scholarship illuminates the children's media area, including policy implications. [1] [2] Calvert is currently professor of psychology, [1] [2] and an affiliated faculty member at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. [3]
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer is a University of Minnesota Regents Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health at the School of Public Health. She is a scholar on adolescent and young adult eating and weight-related health. Neumark-Sztainer's research on eating disorders prevention, conducted in secondary schools in Jerusalem ...
Online access. Childhood Obesity is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering childhood obesity. It was established in 2005 as Obesity Management, and changed its name to Obesity and Weight Management in 2009. It acquired its current name in 2010. It is published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. and the editor-in-chief is Tom Baranowski ...
The normal range for BMI in children vary with age and sex. While a BMI above the 85th percentile is defined as overweight, a BMI greater than or equal to the 95th percentile is defined as obesity by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Obesity is further categorized as class 1 obesity with BMI at or above the 95th percentile ...
Prevalence. According to the CDC, For the 2015–2016 year, the CDC found that the prevalence of obesity for children aged 2–19 years old, in the U.S., was 18.5%. [7] The current trends show that children aged 12–19 years old, have obesity levels 2.2% higher than children 6–11 years old (20.6% vs. 18.4%), and children 6–11 years old ...
Robert H. Lustig (born 1957) is an American pediatric endocrinologist. He is professor emeritus of pediatrics in the division of endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he specialized in neuroendocrinology and childhood obesity. He is also director of UCSF's WATCH program (Weight Assessment for Teen and Child ...
Bibbins-Domingo is a recognized expert in prevention and health equity and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed original research articles. [3] She is a cardiovascular disease epidemiologist whose work focuses on clinical and public health approaches to prevention, particularly in young adults. [ 4 ]
The EPODE International Network is an NGO, a network of community-based and school-based childhood obesity -prevention programmes as well as healthy active initiatives aimed at preventing childhood adiposity & overweight in children. This NGO facilitates the sharing of experiences, best practices and tools at the global level for continuous ...