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The European Journal of Public Health 2005 15(6):561-563; doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki216
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Viewpoint

Curbing obesity: prevention and treatment

Caroline Braet and Myriam Van Winckel*

* Ghent University, Belgium

Correspondence: Caroline Braet, Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, H. Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent (B), Belgium e-mail: caroline.braet@ugent.be

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This viewpoint is written by two middle-aged women who have been working with obese children and their families since ~20 years, one as a psychologist and the other as a paediatrician. As we have been treating obesity in children, our focus has not been prevention. The thoughts that follow originate not only from what we have been studying and observing in our contacts with obese children and their parents, but also from what we have been learning as mothers of our now teenage children.

Obesity develops when a genetically sensitive person comes in a favourable environment. Our genes are not changing rapidly, whereas obesity has emerged as a frequent and growing problem, from young age on, everywhere in the world. The United States is on top of the list, followed by those developing countries that are making the transition to more wealth. But also in Europe the same evolution is . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Move more
 

   Reduce ‘screen’-time to maximum 2 h a day
 

   Can we stop the bad habit of eating in between?
 

   Financing preventive programs in at-risk groups
 

   Treating obese children is prevention of later obesity
 

   Afterthoughts....
 

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