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Obesity among Children and Adolescents

The Problem Belongs to Everyone

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Advances in Clinical Child Psychology

Part of the book series: Advances in Clinical Child Psychology ((AEMB,volume 3))

Abstract

American men are among the most obese in the world (Keyes, Araranis, Blackburn, Van Buchen, Buzina, Djorojevic, Fidanza, Karrone, Menotti, Puddu, & Taylor, 1972), and the same is probably true of American children (Bray, 1976; Osancova & Hejda, 1975). When faced with such statements, two questions come to mind: (1) Does it matter? (or, more colloquially, “So what?”); and (2) Can we do anything about it?

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