Childhood Obesity and Impact of Nutritional and Lifestyle Intervention

ISBN-13: 9783659809422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str.

C. A. Kalpana; U. K. Lakshmi

Opis

Childhood Obesity is becoming endemic globally. The need to prevent and manage obesity is increasing as many non communicable diseases arise out of obesity. Hence the authors developed nutritional and lifestyle intervention strategies to treat and prevent childhood obesity. Nutrition education, physical activity and low fat, high fibre snack replacement were used as school based, family based and individual based approaches or intervention strategies.

O autorze

Dr. C.A.KALPANA has 18 years of experience in Food science and Nutrition. She is a member of the American Society for Nutrition and serving in the Editorial Board of The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics. Dr.Kalpana is well versed in nutritional assessment techniques, obesity research, ICT enabled teaching and food product development.