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Health Education Research 2006 21(6):753-754; doi:10.1093/her/cyl142
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Are There Public Health Lessons That Can Be Used to Help Prevent Childhood Obesity?

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In keeping with our increasing emphasis on thematic issues of pressing public health importance, I am pleased that this issue of Health Education Research is devoted to the topic of childhood obesity, and I sincerely thank Associate Editor Jenny O'Dea for spearheading this timely effort.

Increasing rates of childhood overweight and obesity have rapidly spread throughout the world, starting in developed countries, like the United States, and now beginning to be observed in the developing world as well. In fact, some developing countries are being confronted with the double burden of malnutrition or undernutrition in some segments of the population and obesity or overnutrition elsewhere. The obesity epidemic has taken center stage, usurping tobacco . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Michael Eriksen, Editor-in-Chief


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