Obesity : Stigma, Trends, and Interventions.

Intro -- Introduction -- 'Words Can Heal or Do Harm': Policy Addresses Ways to Reduce Weight Stigma -- Stigma Experienced by Children and Adolescents With Obesity -- The Role of Children's Movies Weighs Heavily in the Tackling and Fumbling of Obesogenic Issues -- Obesogenic Behavior and Weight- Based Stigma in Popular Children's Movies, 2012 to 2015 -- Study: Public Health Efforts Fail to Make Dent in Childhood Obesity -- Weighing in on Obesity Trends in US Children: Th e News Is Not Good -- Epidemic Childhood Obesity: Not Yet the End of the Beginning -- Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in US Children, 1999-2016 -- Young Children With Severe Obesity: Who Are They and What Might We Do Differently to Help Them -- Characteristics of Children 2 to 5 Years of Age With Severe Obesity -- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Early Childhood Obesity -- The Role of the Pediatrician in Primary Prevention of Obesity -- How to Prevent Obesity Without Encouraging Eating Disorders -- Preventing Obesity and Eating Disorders in Adolescents -- An Integrated Clinic-Community Partnership for Child Obesity Treatment: A Randomized Pilot Trial -- A Home Visiting Parenting Program and Child Obesity: A Randomized Trial -- A Tailored Family-Based Obesity Intervention: A Randomized Trial -- Cost-Effectiveness of a Clinical Childhood Obesity Intervention.

This collection of timely full text AAP articles explores the risks and interventions of pediatric obesity. Alarmingly, severe obesity appears to be increasing in prevalence faster than overweight or "routine" obesity and no single solution will end the Child Obesity epidemic. This article collection outlines the most successful and cost-effective approaches to this epidemic.

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