Sentences with phrase «child obesity strategy»

As the most recent statistics on childhood obesity were released — which, incidentally, showed that around one in five children is overweight or obese as they start school, rising to around a third of children by the end of primary school — we launched a white paper setting out what we want to see in the forthcoming national child obesity strategy.

As the government looks to update its child obesity strategy, the Children's Food Campaign and Sustain have joined forces with Jamie Oliver, in a new #AdEnough campaign to curb junk food marketing, featuring selfies with covered eyes - the only effective ad - blocker children currently have.

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Given that global incidence rates of overweight and obesity are on the rise, particularly among children and adolescents, it is imperative that current public health strategies include education about beverage intake.

Last month, I participated in an important panel at a childhood obesity conference to discuss the current strategy backed by some advocacy groups: asking industry to market «healthier» foods to children.

Studies to date have examined familial clustering of risk behaviors linked with accelerated weight gain in children, psychosocial consequences of obesity in children, parenting strategies that promote active lifestyles in children, and developmental and contextual factors that explain declines in adolescent girls» physical activity.

Breastfeeding is the only evidenced - based intervention that reduces diabetes and overweight in children, will the Government ensure that it is included in the next Childhood Obesity Strategy?

«We now need to look at the potential for exploiting the opportunities provided by the scheme to support healthy eating initiatives in schools and engage school communities in the wider strategy to tackle obesity and ensure that when children leave the scheme they continue to eat their five a day.»

«Soda tax for adolescents, exercise for children best strategies for reducing obesity.»

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.

Through projects at Duke Health, DCRI and the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to weight.

However, Domoff said that TV use during meals is also a risk factor for obesity, and other strategies to help children eat should be encouraged.

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

These are just a few strategies that incorporate new findings in childhood obesity and do not require your child to starve to lose weight.

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.

With a proposed sugar tax on soft drink makers, a new - look EatWell plate to help us all eat a better diet, and a childhood obesity strategy on the way, it seems steps to help children eat better are never far from the front pages.

Our hope is that the government will make good on the failings highlighted in the UN report with bold policy on play and children's physical activity in the forthcoming and much - delayed national obesity strategy.

The government has said primary schools should provide at least 30 minutes of physical activity every day for pupils under a new strategy to tackle child obesity.

A Report by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to Inform the Development of the UK Government's Childhood Obesity Strategy, October 2015

Of a number of published evidence reviews on strategies for preventing childhood obesity, 8 — 15 only one published in 2007 has focused on environmental influences of obesity - related dietary behaviours in children and young people (aged 3 — 18 years).15 It found consistent associations between parental influences (parental food intake and education) and obesity in this age group.15 The early years are a priority population for intervention strategies for two reasons.

Finally, for children growing up with family conflict, exposure to community violence may have a cumulative impact on distress symptoms and thereby influence both physiological and behavioral coping strategies that elevate risk for early obesity.

Unique determinants of obesity in Aboriginal children and families include experiences of colonialism, racism and social exclusion, and inequities in the social determinates of health, and these need to be considered in prevention strategies (Willows et al. 2012).

Identification of factors that drive parental concern about child weight, such as socially influenced body weight ideals and knowledge about the health consequences of obesity, that are not explicitly studied in connection to concern about child weight [80], can help professionals provide parents with appropriate information and coping strategies.