Time to Act: Lessons learnt from the first pilot school-based intervention study from Lebanon to prevent and reduce childhood Obesity

Today, childhood overweight and obesity are serious public health problems facing the world. Obese children suffer from both short-term and long-term health consequences, and poorer adult health. Despite the rising prevalence of childhood obesity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), including...

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Main Authors: Carla eHabib-Mourad, Lilian eGhandour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00056/full