There is a high prevalence of childhood overweight globally, which makes the need for prevention and management intervention more relevant than ever.<\/p>\n
In a recently published study <\/a>, results from the “Eat well, be active<\/a>” intervention are reported. This was a multi-strategy intervention that aimed to reduce obesity in childhood. It was implemented in two geographically distinct and socio-economically disadvantaged communities in Australia. The study had a quasi-experimental design and focused on increasing healthy eating and physical activity behaviours through a range of children’s settings and using multiple strategies.<\/p>\n The 3 year follow-up showed a moderate yet important impact of the intervention: there was a reduction in overweight and obese status among pre-school children and an improvement in waist circumference among primary school children.<\/p>\n Are you aware of similar interventions? What do you think about them?<\/p>\n * The study was authored by Tahna Pettman<\/a>, Anthea Magarey <\/a>, Nadia Mastersson, Annabelle Wilson <\/a>and James Dollman\u00a0 <\/a>from the University of Melbourne<\/a>, Flinders University<\/a>, University of South Australia<\/a> and the Health Promotion Branch <\/a><\/em>of the Government of South Australia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a high prevalence of childhood overweight globally, which makes the need for prevention and management intervention more relevant than ever. In a recently published study , results from the “Eat well, be active” intervention are reported. This was a multi-strategy intervention that aimed to reduce obesity in childhood. It was implemented in two… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,11],"tags":[62,64,84,152,227,228,245,298,472,597,626,879],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought","category-hot-off-the-press","category-international-journal-of-public-health","tag-annabelle-wilson","tag-anthea-magarey","tag-australia","tag-childhood-obesity","tag-diet","tag-dietary-intervention","tag-eat-well-be-active","tag-exercise","tag-james-dollman","tag-nadia-mastersson","tag-obesity-overweight","tag-tahna-pettman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}