Study of community efforts to combat childhood obesity, a key risk factor for later chronic disease

Medical X-Press – Brendan M. Lynch

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in five US school-age children and young people ages 6 to 19 years suffers from obesity, a tripling of such numbers since the 1970s. For individual children, genetics, eating and exercise all play a role in weight status—but the influence of a community’s design, programs and policies on childhood obesity hasn’t been comprehensively understood. (more)