Children's Health & Fitness ? Obesity Intervention Needed Even ...

June 3rd, 2012 by Len Saunders

From The LA Times?..

Most efforts to combat childhood obesity focus on children and adolescents ? but perhaps those efforts should start much earlier, even before conception, researchers say.

With 10% of U.S. preschoolers obese and another 10% overweight, obesity clearly begins early ? in fact, before pregnancy, the researchers say in the June issue of Childhood Obesity. Markers for later heart disease appear in 3-year-olds, they say.

A multidisciplinary approach to break the cycle of obesity moving from generation to generation is needed, say the researchers, six experts from institutions across the country who conducted a review of more than 1,000 studies and discussions about efforts underway.

?High-risk adolescent girls become high-risk mothers who have high-risk infants, who in turn become high-risk children and adolescents,? the researchers write.

To break the cycle, the researchers propose two ideas: First, intervene before, during and after pregnancy and with very young children. Second, use a ?systems? approach that would combine efforts in various settings and account for behavior and environmental factors.

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