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Obesity in the Early Childhood Years: State of the Science and Implementation of Promising Solutions - Workshop in Brief
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... Building on these modifiable protective and risk factors, workshop participants discussed interventions, practices, and policies (called "interventions" from here forward) that have demonstrated promise in prevention and treatment of early childhood obesity, including the role of pediatricians in obesity prevention and treatment, programs that take place in early care and education settings, and family-focused interventions.
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... Among children 2 to 5 years old, according to data presented by Ogden from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, obesity3 has risen from approximately 5 percent in the early 1970s, when existing body mass indexes (BMIs) were used to establish a baseline for obesity, to 8.4–9.5 percent for boys and 7.2 percent for girls in 2011–2012.
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... The dynamic eating patterns in the first few years of life offer many opportunities to change lifelong habits, noted Jose Saavedra, global chief medical officer for Nestlé Nutrition and associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The foods and beverages a child consumes early in life can establish preferences and patterns that persist for many years.
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... CROSS-SECTOR SOLUTIONS The need for sustained, varied, and multifaceted interventions, involving partnerships across sectors, is evident in combating childhood obesity, noted Lisel Loy, director of the Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center. The workshop's final panel examined comprehensive solutions to address childhood obesity.
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... The Nemours Children's Health System is an example of a health care organization that has taken a multifaceted approach to obesity prevention and treatment, stated Allison Gertel-Rosenberg, director of national prevention and practice in the Nemours National Office of Policy and Prevention. It has sought to complement and expand the reach of clinicians using a community-based approach in which messages regarding healthy eating and physical activity extend across the lifecycle with consistent messaging from parents, early care and education providers, and physicians.
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... Steiber Healthy Weight Commitment Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, of Sports Medicine; American Council on Exercise; American Foundation, Washington, DC Chicago, IL Heart Association; American Society for Nutrition; Bipartisan Paul Grimwood Maha Tahiri Nestlé USA, Glendale, CA General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN Policy Center; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Marjorie Innocent Kathleen Tullie National Association for the Reebok, International, Canton, MA The California Endowment; ChildObesity180/Tufts University; Advancement of Colored People, Tish Van Dyke Edelman; General Mills, Inc.; Greater Rochester Health Foundation; Baltimore, MD Edelman, Washington, DC Scott I Kahan HealthPartners, Inc.; Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation; Howell Wechsler George Washington University, Washington, DC Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Highmark, Inc.; The JPB Foundation; Kaiser Permanente; New York, NY Shiriki Kumanyika James R


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