title: Combating The Obesogenic Environment: Helping Children Hold Onto Health creator: Whitehead, Tanya D subject: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences description: Given the unprecedented global incidence of overweight in children, the issues that potentially create and sustain a circumstance of epidemic childhood overweight, and the efforts that are underway to prevent and remediate childhood overweight need to be examined. The article explores potentially interrelated causes of obesity/overweight in children and their families, and describe efforts underway to remediate environmental correlates through direct intervention, legislation and a shift in public policy. publisher: Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya contributor: Kakkilaya, Dr. Srinivas date: 2008-01-24 type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated) type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/5931/1/2007-4-1.pdf identifier: Whitehead, Tanya D (2008) Combating The Obesogenic Environment: Helping Children Hold Onto Health. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/5931/