Screen LibraryChildhood obesity in America : biography of an epidemic /
"A century ago, a plump child was considered a healthy child. No longer. An overweight child is now known to be at risk for maladies ranging from asthma to cardiovascular disease, and obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Childhood Obesity in America traces the chang...
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"A century ago, a plump child was considered a healthy child. No longer. An overweight child is now known to be at risk for maladies ranging from asthma to cardiovascular disease, and obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Childhood Obesity in America traces the changes in diagnosis and treatment, as well as popular understanding, of the most serious public health problem facing American children today. Excess weight was once thought to be something children outgrew, or even a safeguard against infectious disease. But by the mid-twentieth century, researchers recog |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-294) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674281448 (hardback) : 0674281446 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | RJ399 |
| CLC: |
R589.2-171.2 R153.2-171.2 |
| Call Number: | E153.2-171.2/D269 |
| Contents: | Part 1. Measurement and diagnosis : How big is normal?: quantifying children's body size -- Measuring up: height-weight standards and diagnosis -- Sugar, spice, frogs, snails: the composition of the fat child -- Insides made easy: measuring and diagnosing obesity using body composition -- Part 2. Causes and treatments : Something wrong inside: childhood obesity as a biological fault, and the hope for a drug treatment -- The enduring promise: the continued search for a pharmaceutical remedy -- Feeling fat: emotions and family as factors in childhood obesity -- Kalorie kids: energy balance and |