School-Based Interventions on Childhood Obesity

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Reducing Children's Television Viewing to Prevent Obesity: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Reducing Obesity via a School-Based Interdisciplinary Intervention Among Youth

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Universities and tobacco money

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The prevention of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents: a review of interventions and programmes

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Pathways: a school-based, randomized controlled trial for the prevention of obesity in American Indian schoolchildren.

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Prevalence and trends in overweight and obesity in three cross sectional studies of British children, 1974-94

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Impact of a School-Based Interdisciplinary Intervention on Diet and Physical Activity Among Urban Primary School Children

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Strategies for the prevention and control of obesity in the school setting: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children: cluster randomised controlled trial

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Randomised controlled trial of primary school based intervention to reduce risk factors for obesity

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Secular Increases in Relative Weight and Adiposity Among Children Over Two Decades: The Bogalusa Heart Study

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New moves: a school-based obesity prevention program for adolescent girls

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Improvement of Fitness, Body Composition, and Insulin Sensitivity in Overweight Children in a School-Based Exercise Program

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School‐based interventions for childhood and adolescent obesity

Sharma, M. (2006) · Obesity Reviews · doi:10.1111/j.1467-789x.2006.00227.x · Cited by 321

Nutrition and Physical Activity Program to Attenuate Obesity and Promote Physical and Metabolic Fitness in Elementary School Children

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Prevention of the Epidemic Increase in Child Risk of Overweight in Low-Income Schools

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School‐Based Cardiovascular Health Promotion: The Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH)

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Exercise Training in Obese Children and Adolescents

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Body mass index in 7–9-y-old French children: frequency of obesity, overweight and thinness

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Effects of a controlled trial of a school-based exercise program on the obesity indexes of preschool children

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Do interventions to limit sedentary behaviours change behaviour and reduce childhood obesity? A critical review of the literature

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Evaluation of a pilot school programme aimed at the prevention of obesity in children

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Physical Education in Elementary School and Body Mass Index: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study

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Prevention of obesity—more than an intention. Concept and first results of the Kiel Obesity Prevention Study (KOPS)

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Evaluation of implementation and effect of primary school based intervention to reduce risk factors for obesity

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Dance for health: improving fitness in African American and Hispanic adolescents.

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Overweight and obesity in European children: definition and diagnostic procedures, risk factors and consequences for later health outcome

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School-based obesity prevention in Chilean primary school children: methodology and evaluation of a controlled study

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Effects of a school-based intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors in elementary-school children: the Cardiovascular Health in Children (CHIC) study

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A systematic review of controlled trials of interventions to prevent childhood obesity and overweight: A realistic synthesis of the evidence

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Evaluation of a 2-year physical activity and healthy eating intervention in middle school children

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Evaluation of a Health and Nutrition Education Program in Primary School Children of Crete over a Three-Year Period

Μanios, Y., Moschandreas, J. A., Hatzis, C., & Kafatos, A. (1999) · Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1006/pmed.1998.0388 · Cited by 164

International school‐based interventions for preventing obesity in children

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Effects of an Obesity Prevention Program on the Eating Behavior of African American Mothers and Daughters

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Reducing Overweight through a Multidisciplinary School‐based Intervention

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Time trends of obesity in pre-school children in China from 1989 to 1997

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Childhood Obesity in New York City Elementary School Students

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Go Girls!: Results from a Nutrition and Physical Activity Program for Low-Income, Overweight African American Adolescent Females

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Health and nutrition education in primary schools of Crete: changes in chronic disease risk factors following a 6-year intervention programme

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Preventing childhood obesity: two year follow-up results from the Christchurch obesity prevention programme in schools (CHOPPS)

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Child and Adolescent Obesity

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Intervention centred on adolescents' physical activity and sedentary behaviour (ICAPS): concept and 6-month results

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Effect of physical activity intervention on body composition in young children: influence of body mass index status and gender

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An Environmental Approach to Obesity Prevention in Children: Medical College of Georgia FitKid Project Year 1 Results

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Stage-based interventions for low-fat diet with middle school students

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Preliminary Testing of a Program to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Among High‐Risk Youth

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The effects of a 3‐year obesity intervention in schoolchildren in Beijing

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Obesity prevention in low socioeconomic status urban African-American adolescents: study design and preliminary findings of the HEALTH-KIDS Study

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School-Based Overweight Preventive Intervention Lowers Incidence of Disordered Weight-Control Behaviors in Early Adolescent Girls

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School‐based interventions to prevent overweight and obesity in prepubertal children: process and 4‐years outcome evaluation of the Kiel Obesity Prevention Study (KOPS)

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Data from the StEP TWO programme showing the effect on blood pressure and different parameters for obesity in overweight and obese primary school children

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Health and nutrition education in primary schools of Crete: follow-up changes in body mass index and overweight status

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PRESTO—Prevention Study of Obesity: A project to prevent obesity during childhood and adolescence

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