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The European Journal of Public Health 2005 15(6):563; doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki217
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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A checklist for curbing childhood obesity

Claude Marcus*

* Professor of Pediatrics, Karolinska Institute, Head of National Childhood Obesity Centre, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Correspondence: Claude Marcus, Professor of Pediatrics, Karolinska Institute and Head of National Childhood Obesity Centre, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden e-mail: Marcusclaude.marcus@klinvet.ki.se

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The insight that childhood obesity is a problem is spreading fast. Most decision-makers involved in public health are aware of the fact that obesity early in life negatively affects self esteem and increases the risk of future diabetes and cardiovascular disease although the effect of obesity on cancer risk is less well known. Thus, childhood obesity is one of our major threats to public health and will cause a reduced life expectancy in the future if we do . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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