Prevention
"Obesity of mothers predisposes their offsprings to obesity by epigenetic, prenatal effects." Prevention and awareness programs should target children as early as kindergarten with the involvement of parents. The approaches include changing the environment children are in. For example, the banning of pop being sold at vending machines in school.
Read more about this topic: Childhood Obesity
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“... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)