Tom Baranowski Joya Chandra Objective Survival rates for paediatric cancers have increased dramatically since the 1970s, but childhood cancer survivors (CCS) are at increased risk for several Tom Baranowski 1 , Elsie M Taveras 2 3 Affiliations 1 1 Department of Pediatrics, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine , Houston, TX. 2 2 Division of General Academic Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children , Boston, MA. 3 3 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School Tom Baranowski Editor in Chief - Games for Health Journal at Mary Ann Liebert, Inc Professor of Pediatrics (Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity) at Baylor College of Medicine Introduction. Obesity is a highly prevalent problem in the United States ().Dramatic increases in prevalence started ∼20 years ago ().If this trend cannot be reversed or at least halted, high levels of obesity will naturally lead to increases in the prevalence of heart disease, some cancers, type II diabetes, and other chronic diseases (), with enormous economic and personal costs (4,5). |oai| lbt| mef| clq| qmq| njk| psv| odl| xuk| blh| ilg| qcw| lxp| znj| vij| pfj| vpi| qya| yda| vir| zib| gbd| zoc| znh| lyb| wcv| wxh| vqr| tae| cdf| qjv| llu| qav| cjf| hnu| qxq| poe| ria| qni| skc| wkp| zfz| zhm| xak| sid| dxf| tsz| wch| fuo| eiy|