Throughout the developed world there is an increasing prevalence of childhood obesity. This book provides sport, exercise and medicine students and professional

The prevalence of childhood obesity is so high in the United States that it may reduce the life expectancy of today's generation of children. While parents and

Children's health has made tremendous strides over the past century. In general, life expectancy has increased by more than thirty years since 1900 and much of

This volume presents criteria for evaluating treatment programs for obesity and explores what these criteria mean--to health care providers, program designers,

Understanding the complex factors contributing to the growing childhood obesity epidemic is vital not only for the improved health of the world's future generat