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Published online February 1, 2005
PEDIATRICS Vol. 115 No. 2 February 2005, pp. 494-495 (doi:10.1542/peds.2004-2165)
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Confronting the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity

Sonia Caprio, MD, Myron Genel, MD

Section of Pediatric Endocrinology
Department of Pediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT 06520

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In a recent policy statement emphasizing early identification and prevention strategies, the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition refers to an "epidemic" of excessive weight and frank obesity in children.1 Similarly, this rather graphic term can be found in a number of recent articles, commentaries, reports from expert consensus conferences, and pronouncements by public officials. "Epidemic" is usually used to describe the spread of an infectious disease. Although not contagious, childhood obesity is spreading like influenza, and we have no vaccine against it. Its prevalence is increasing worldwide, even in less-developed countries. In the United States, childhood obesity is the most common nutritional disorder (1 in 3 are overweight or close to it), with disproportionately high rates in ethnic minorities. American children are on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Address correspondence to Myron Genel, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208081, New Haven, CT 06520-8081. E-mail: myron.genel@yale.edu


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