Preventing overweight starts early: Buffalo healthy tots
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: A preschool children aged 2-5 years, the prevalence of obesity doubled from 5.0% to 10.4% over the past 3 decades. Obesity tracks throughout development and 52% of obese children 3-5 years remain obese as adults. The risk of a child being obese as an adult is a joint function of being overweight as a child and parental obesity. Family change towards healthier habits, modifying the shared family eating and activity environment, supporting healthier behaviors and modeling new behaviors are important factors leading to prevention and treatment of child overweight. Only limited research has been conducted on early intervention, especially in the primary care setting. The talk will focus on Buffalo Healthy Tots, an innovative program focusing on the young child and been carried out in the primary care setting. The goal of this program is to test the efficacy of an innovative family-based intervention program designed for treating overweight/obese children aged 2-5 years and an overweight parent. We hypothesized that children and parents randomized to a family-based behavioral Intervention would have greater reductions in percent over body mass index (%OBMI) and BMI respectively, compared to children and parents randomized to Information Control, and that child and parent adiposity changes would be positively correlated. The methods, including the key aspects of the program will be reviewed. Particular attention will be devoted to the translational aspects of the program, ongoing progress and preliminary results.
Author: Teresa Quattrin
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2318815047