Obesity prevention in France: Yes, but how and why?
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2009
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Daniel, M.
Paquet, C.
McDermott, R.
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Public Health Nutrition, 2009; 12(8):1305-1306
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The report by Romon et al. describing a community-wide, multi-faceted intervention to prevent childhood overweight and obesity in France(1)asserts a substantial reduction over time in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the intervention communities relative to two smaller comparison communities.
We do not question the need for multi-level, multi-sector solutions to childhood obesity. We are, however,concerned about uncritical acceptance of the merits of this study, especially as the authors did not describe important elements of the intervention and its evaluation.
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Copyright 2009 The Authors