Preface
Debasis Bagchi
I. Epidemiology and Prevalence
1. Salient Features on Child Obesity from the Viewpoint of a Nutritionist
Bernard Waysfeld
2. Developmental Trajectories of Weight Status in Childhood and Adolescence
Samar Hejazi
3. Nursing Perspective on Childhood Obesity
Carrie Tolman
4. Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: An Emerging Epidemic Among Obese Youth
Kathryn Love-Osborne
5. Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in US Youth
Sarah E. Messiah
6. Childhood obesity-Exercise Physiologists’ Perspectives
Sang-Hoon Suh and Yu-Sik Kim
7. Trends and Contemporary Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in U.S. Childhood Obesity
Gopal Singh
II. Pathophysiology
8. A Prospective View: Child Obesity Starts from the Mother’s Womb
Ashik Mosaddik
9. The Social, Cultural and Familial Contexts Contributing to Childhood Obesity
Cathy Banwell
10. Cardiovascular Risk Clustering in Obese Children
Ram Weiss
11. A link between maternal and childhood obesity
Jenna Hollis and Sian Robinson
12. PATHWAYS LEADING TO CHILD OBESITY: AN OVERVIEW
Raj K. Keservani
13. Sleep and Obesity in Children and Adoloscents
Erin C. Hanlon, Magdalena Dumin and Silvana Pannain
14. Children obesity, glucose tolerance, ghrelin and Prader Willi syndrome
Flavia Prodam
15. Insulin resistance in pediatric obesity – physiological effects and possible diet treatment
Ulf Holmback
16. Obesity and non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children
Melania Manco
III. Psychological and Behavioral Factors
17. Role of Peptides, Biogenic Amines and Hypothalamic Drive in Dietary Induced Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome
Sayantan Maitra and Stabak Das
IV. Consequences
18. Childhood Obesity: Can Public Policy Make a Difference?
Rogan Kersh and Brian Elbel
19. Bone Health in Obesity and the Cross Talk between Fat and Bone
Sowmya Krishnan
20. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children and obesity
Ambika P. Ashraf, Amy Miskimon Goss and Shima Dowla
V. Prevention and Treatment
21. Childhood Obesity: Factors, Consequences and Intervention
Chandan Sen
22. Parks and Recreation: Centers for Eating and Physical Activity Behavior Interventions
Danielle Hollar
23. A Community-Level Perspective for Childhood Obesity Prevention
Erin Hennessy, Ariella R. Korn and Christina Economos
24. STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTION OF CHIDHOOD OBESITY
Satinath Mukhopadhyay
25. School-Based Obesity Prevention Interventions Show Promising Improvements in the Health and Academic Achievements among Ethnically Diverse Young Children
Danielle Hollar
26. School and Community-Based Physical Education and Healthy Active Living Programs
Ming-Kai Chin
27. Schools as "Laboratories" for Obesity Prevention: Proven Effective Models
Michelle Lombardo
28. Psychotherapy as an Intervention for Child Obesity
Carl-Erik Flodmark
29. Childhood Obesity and Diabetes: Role of Probiotics and Prebiotics
Navya Vyas, Sreedharan Nair, Mahadev Rao and Sonal Sekhar Miraj
30. Therapeutic Treatment for Controlling Childhood Obesity
Mohiuddin Ahmed Bhuiyan
31. Treatment of Pediatric Obesity: Past and Present Approaches to Diet and Exercise
Jon Oden, Wendy Ward and Manish Raisingani
VI. Commentary and Recommendations
32. Childhood Obesity, Food Choice and Market Influence
Jane Kolodinsky and Catherine Horner
33. The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity
Amy Beth Jordan
34. The Future Directions of Childhood Obesity and Clinical Management
Clodagh O’Gorman and Jill Hamilton
VII. Health Policies and Interventions
35. Childhood Obesity: Health Policies and Interventions
Tandra Chakraborty
Commentary
Debasis Bagchi
