Childhood Obesity: Risk Factors, Health Effects and Prevention

 Content: The importance of physical activity in a lofty pediatric obesity context / Benjamin C. Guinhouya --
 Contribution of physiological and psychosocial risk factors combined with sedentary lifestyles to overweight and obesity : prospects for prevention / Pouran D. Faghri, Cynthia H. Adams --
 The prevalence of overweight and obesity and related metabolic abnormalities among children and adolescents in China / Zhijie Yu, Gang Hu, Xilin Yang --
 Ethnic differences in pediatric obesity and the metabolic syndrome / Zeena Salman, Mark D. DeBoer --
 Migrant status --
 an important risk factor for developing obesity during childhood / Sylvia Kirchengast --
 Promotion of healthy lifestyles to prevent obesity in school children / Elena Centis, Rebecca Marzocchi, Giulio Marchesini --
 Using real-time data capture methods to investigate children\'s physical activity and eating behaviors / Genevieve Fridlund Dunton --
 Effects of schoolyard\'s attributes on childhood obesity / Isabel Mourão-Carvalhal, Eduarda Coelho --
 A gender-structured random model for understanding adulthood obesity / Francisco-J. Santonja, Rafael J. Villanueva, Lucas J\'odar --
 Does this study inform policy? Examination of leading childhood obesity journals\' instructions to authors regarding policy-related research and implications / Sheila Fleischhacker ... [et al.] --
 Nutrition education in school-based childhood and adolescent obesity prevention programs / Melinda J. Ickes, Manoj Sharma --
 Child obesity in global perspective emergent risks related to social status, urbanism, and poverty / Alexandra Brewis, Mary C. Meyer.