title: Stemming the obesity epidemic: are nurses credible coaches?
abstract: Obesity has become a health crisis in the United States, leading to serious physical, social, and psychological outcomes. Nurses are obese in the same proportion as the general population, which may discredit them as role models of and educators for healthful living.
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Marchiondo
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D015995:Prevalence; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology