Child Health, Nutrition and Physical Activity
Published on 1. December 1995
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-87322-774-2 (ISBN)
Description
Offers a review of information on nutrition, physical activity, eating disorders, obesity in childhood and prevention of chronic disease in adulthood. This book is a result of the Harvard Conference on Nutrition and Physical Activity of Children and Youth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Champaign
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87322-774-2 (9780873227742)
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Content
Part 1 Childhood and adolescent nutrition: dietary issues and nutritional status of American children, Catherine E. Woteki and Lloyd J. Filer Jr. Part 2 Exercise during childhood and adolescence: activity, fitness, and health of children and adolescents, Oded Bar-Or and Robert M. Malina. Part 3 Obesity, weight control, and eating disorders: childhood obesity, William H. Dietz; fear of fatness and anorexia nervosa in children, Regina C. Casper. Part 4 Prevention of adult chronic diseases: childhood prevention of adult chronic diseases-rationale and strategies, Sue Y.S. Kimm and Peter O. Kwiterovich. Part 5 Toward better health of children: current views and future perspectives, Lilian Cheung; summaries of working group discussions.