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Child and adolescent obesity: part of a bigger picture

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Lobstein, Tim, Jackson-Leach, Rachel, Moodie, Marjory L, Hall, Kevin D, Gortmaker, Steven L, Swinburn, Boyd A, James, W Philip T, Wang, Youfa, McPherson, Klim·2015·The Lancet

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The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has risen substantially worldwide in less than one generation. In the USA, the average weight of a child has risen by more than 5 kg within three decades, to a point where a third of the country's children are overweight or obese. Some low-income and middle-income countries have reported similar or more rapid rises in child obesity, despite continuing high levels of undernutrition. Nutrition policies to tackle child obesity need to promote healthy growth and household nutrition security and protect children from inducements to be inactive or to overconsume foods of poor nutritional quality. The promotion of energy-rich and nutrient-poor products will encourage rapid weight gain in early childhood and exacerbate risk factors for chronic disease in all children, especially those showing poor linear growth. Whereas much public health effort has been expended to restrict the adverse marketing of breastmilk substitutes, similar effort now needs to be expanded and strengthened to protect older children from increasingly sophisticated marketing of sedentary activities and energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods and beverages. To meet this challenge, the governance of food supply and food markets should be improved and commercial activities subordinated to protect and promote children's health.

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Authors: Lobstein, T., Jackson-Leach, R., Moodie, M. L., Hall, K. D., Gortmaker, S. L., Swinburn, B. A., James, W. P. T., Wang, Y., & McPherson, K.
Affiliations: World Obesity Federation (GB)
National Institutes of Health (US)
Harvard University (US)
Deakin University (AU)
University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author: Lobstein, Tim
ORCID: Lobstein, Tim
Hall, Kevin D
Gortmaker, Steven L
Swinburn, Boyd A
McPherson, Klim
Venue: The Lancet
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2015-06
Volume: 385
Issue: 9986
Pages: 2510-2520
ISSN: 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(14)61746-3
PMC: PMC4594797
OpenAlex: W1996661765
Cited by: 1,279
References: 74
Citations by year: 2026: 47 · 2025: 62 · 2024: 79 · 2023: 95 · 2022: 101 · 2021: 123 · 2020: 144 · 2019: 145 · 2018: 124 · 2017: 110 · 2016: 151 · 2015: 93
FWCI: 23.00
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: The Lancet (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders: RWJF (grant 260639)
CDC (U48/DP00064)
NIH (1R01HD064685–01A1, U54HD070725)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Child Nutrition and Water Access
Keywords: childhood obesity, adolescent obesity, childhood overweight, obesity prevalence trends, nutrition policy, healthy growth, energy-dense nutrient-poor foods, food marketing regulation, sedentary activity, malnutrition, child health
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Body Height, Child, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Energy Metabolism, Female, Food Supply, Health Promotion, Humans, Infant, Male, Primary Prevention, Social Responsibility, Socioeconomic Factors, Causality, Prevalence, Nutrition Policy, Developed Countries, Food Industry, Overweight, Pediatric Obesity

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