title: Challenges and strategies for proper pediatric nutrition and weight control.
abstract: Pediatric and adolescent obesity are a growing problem in New Jersey and throughout the United States. The long-term health consequences may produce a generation of children with a shorter life expectancy than their parents have. A coordinated effort by parents, teachers, physicians, public health organizations, schools, and peers is essential in encouraging children who are currently overweight to lose weight and attain a normal body mass index and to prevent other children from becoming overweight.
authors.affiliation: Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.forename: Sindy M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: Margaret F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Fisher
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D009752:Nutritional Status; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010372:Pediatrics; D015995:Prevalence; D016730:Program Development; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology