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The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).
Publication Date
6-26-2013
Keywords
Childhood obesity; Interventions; Treatments; Biological factors of obesity; Stress; Reward; Social influences
Introduction
Obesity is a global epidemic. It is particularly affecting our children and adolescents. This new phenomenon of having a chronic medical condition affecting such a large proportion of those under 18 years old is unprecedented.
Subjects
Obesity; Obesity in children; Overweight persons; Stress (Psychology); Starvation; Obesity--Prevention; Obesity--Treatment; Obesity in children--Prevention
Collection
Publisher
University of Central Florida
STARS Citation
Barkley, Lisa (2013). We must all work to solve childhood obesity. UCF Today, 2013-06-26. Retrieved from http://today.ucf.edu/we-must-all-work-to-solve-childhood-obesity/
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