Preface

I. Epidemiology and Prevalence

1. Salient Features on Child Obesity from the Viewpoint of a Nutritionist

2. Developmental Trajectories of Weight Status in Childhood and Adolescence

3. Nursing Perspective on Childhood Obesity

4. Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: An Emerging Epidemic Among Obese Youth

5. Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in US Youth

6. Childhood obesity-Exercise Physiologists’ Perspectives

7. Trends and Contemporary Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in U.S. Childhood Obesity

II. Pathophysiology

8. A Prospective View: Child Obesity Starts from the Mother’s Womb

9. The Social, Cultural and Familial Contexts Contributing to Childhood Obesity

10. Cardiovascular Risk Clustering in Obese Children

11. A link between maternal and childhood obesity

12. PATHWAYS LEADING TO CHILD OBESITY: AN OVERVIEW

13. Sleep and Obesity in Children and Adoloscents

14. Children obesity, glucose tolerance, ghrelin and Prader Willi syndrome

15. Insulin resistance in pediatric obesity – physiological effects and possible diet treatment

16. Obesity and non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children

III. Psychological and Behavioral Factors

17. Role of Peptides, Biogenic Amines and Hypothalamic Drive in Dietary Induced Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome

IV. Consequences

18. Childhood Obesity: Can Public Policy Make a Difference?

19. Bone Health in Obesity and the Cross Talk between Fat and Bone

20. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children and obesity

V. Prevention and Treatment

21. Childhood Obesity: Factors, Consequences and Intervention

22. Parks and Recreation: Centers for Eating and Physical Activity Behavior Interventions

23. A Community-Level Perspective for Childhood Obesity Prevention

24. STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTION OF CHIDHOOD OBESITY

25. School-Based Obesity Prevention Interventions Show Promising Improvements in the Health and Academic Achievements among Ethnically Diverse Young Children

26. School and Community-Based Physical Education and Healthy Active Living Programs

27. Schools as "Laboratories" for Obesity Prevention: Proven Effective Models

28. Psychotherapy as an Intervention for Child Obesity

29. Childhood Obesity and Diabetes: Role of Probiotics and Prebiotics

30. Therapeutic Treatment for Controlling Childhood Obesity

31. Treatment of Pediatric Obesity: Past and Present Approaches to Diet and Exercise

VI. Commentary and Recommendations

32. Childhood Obesity, Food Choice and Market Influence

33. The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity

34. The Future Directions of Childhood Obesity and Clinical Management

VII. Health Policies and Interventions

35. Childhood Obesity: Health Policies and Interventions

Commentary