Management of Childhood Obesity: Nutrition and Lifestyle Intervention
摘要
With the socioeconomic development and improvement of living standards, childhood obesity has become a prominent health problem, which has tended to pose many potential hazards to the cardiovascular, endocrine, respiratory, and other systems. This chapter systematically describes the main influencing factors of childhood obesity, defines the screening criteria, and proposes the preventive and control measures. In particular, attention was focused on the association between nutrition, lifestyle intervention, and childhood obesity. The comprehensive description is aimed to provide several reasonable and accurate health guidance for obese children.