Your excellent articles on obesity in Canadian children ignored caloric intake as the major
factor in this problem. 1, 2 Canadians obviously have a sedentary lifestyle. Like Ross …

It is estimated that 14% of Canadian children are either overweight or obese [1]. These rates
have remained relatively stable over the past few years and suggest a dire need for …

The financial cost of obesity in Australia was estimated to be $8.3 billion in 2008. 1 These
costs are likely to increase dramatically over the next two decades as projections suggest …

The increase in childhood obesity over the past several decades, together with the
associated health problems and costs, is raising grave concern among health care …

Background The major drivers of the obesity epidemic are much debated and have
considerable policy importance for the population-wide prevention of obesity. Objective The …

Implications These calculations suggest that small changes in lifestyle would have a minor
effect on obesity prevention. Walking an extra mile a day expends, roughly, an additional 60 …

Overweight Kids: Why Should We Care? Page 1 Page 2 Overweight Kids: Why Should We
Care? Joel Cohen ISBN: 1-58703-129-9 This report is not copyrighted and may be …

Abstract The American Pediatrics Association will remind doctors to monitor children's body
mass index and encourage parents to adopt healthy eating and increase physical activity …

Social and environmental changes are seen as contributing to the increases in BMI levels.
The availability of pre-packaged foods (ie, pizza snacks, granola bars, fruit leathers) has …

The objective of this study was to determine if increased energy intakes could be a
contributing factor to increased childhood obesity. Current mean daily energy intake of …