Sentences with phrase «addressing child obesity»

The Child Nutrition and Women, Infants, and Children Reauthorization Act, which became law in June 2004, requires every school district participating in the National School Lunch Program to enact a local wellness policy addressing child obesity by the first day of the 2006 - 07 school year.

Further exploration of the behavioural and environmental drivers of these associations may help inform strategies addressing child obesity in Asia.

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We argue that a regulation applying only to advertising aimed at children is inherently inappropriate and ill - adapted to addressing the contribution of food advertising to childhood obesity.

Evidence from international systematic reviews shows that food advertising can influence children's food preferences and behaviours [2, 3] and should therefore be addressed as part of any potential solution to childhood obesity.

With a quarter of Australian children obese or overweight, the need to address all potential causes of obesity is paramount [1].

Ensuring quality, inspiring demand and improving access to school food is a three-fold effort to address public health concerns resulting from hunger, malnutrition, and obesity among D.C. school children and their families.

FRAC supports new USDA rules for healthier meals and snacks in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, an important step in addressing the nutritional shortfalls in our nation's children's diets and helping to tackle the nation's obesity problem.

When public schools make a free, delicious, organic school lunch for every student, we not only address the critical social inequities of hunger and obesity, we truly nourish every child.

The few very good recent studies have addressed the relationship between infant / child sleep and such topics as attachment, child independence, maternal postpartum depression / anxiety, and health problems such as childhood diabetes, obesity, depression, and ADHD.

More must be done to improve health - care training, particularly to address biases about patients with obesity, and to improve care - delivery strategies, specifically for children with obesity for whom there are currently few treatment options.

«However, we are clearly falling short in addressing challenges affecting children's health today, including mental health, bullying, safety and obesity.»

«This is really what is driving children's obesity and what needs to be addressed in any solution.»

While there is never a bad time to address one's own obesity, if you're hoping to lose weight before conception for the sake of your child, here's some bad news: Some of the epigenetic damage might have already been done, even if you lose the weight just before conception.

So if you have a child or know of a child facing obesity and poor sleep patterns, I encourage you to use this article as a tool to discuss the problem and address it head on

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prChildren responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prchildren and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prchildren of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

Dr Alison Tedstone, Chief Nutritionist at PHE, said: «Children deserve a healthy future and these figures are a reminder that addressing childhood obesity requires urgent action.

When public schools make a free, delicious, organic school lunch for every student, we not only address the critical social inequities of hunger and obesity, we truly nourish every child.

Given the significant impact that psychosocial risk factors seem to have on outcomes in weight management treatment, identifying and addressing parent mental health concerns, child behavior concerns, and family social resource needs upfront may help improve outcomes in children with obesity.»

Internationally, programs exist that address obesity in children in a community setting.

She has worked on projects addressing several issues around maternal and child health, including substance use, tobacco cessation, childhood obesity policy, and community development.