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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:999-1000
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Special Theme: Ethnicity

Commentary: Getting ahead of the childhood obesity curve

Shiriki Kumanyikaa and Nicolas Stettlera,b

a University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA, USA.
b The Children''s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA, USA.

Prof. S Kumanyika, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 8 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA. E-mail: skumanyi@cceb.med.upenn.edu

It has become painfully clear that we need to be ahead of the curve with respect to obesity development worldwide, beginning in childhood.1 The alternative, to let obesity continue to develop uncontrolled, is to accept the inevitability of an increased global burden of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions. If there are lessons to be learned from the striking occurrence of Type 2 diabetes in obese children in the United States,2 we might also expect an increased burden of obesity-related diseases among children themselves. Unfortunately, however, we are far from where we need to be in making major inroads into coping with this problem. For example, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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