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Mere Health Information may Not Be of Help to Bring Obese Kids to Shape
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say that children need interventions that provide them with more active guidance and strategies to help them make behavioural changes, which may help them get back to shape.
“Providers make the assumption that providing information leads to changes. Providing information is a necessary component, but it’s not sufficient,” said lead study author Dr. Denise Wilfley, professor in the department of psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The researchers analysed 14 studies involving 527 young children, adolescents and teenagers, and found that an “active” treatment involved “any combination of diet, physical activity or behavioural treatment recommendations.” They say that the sessions varied widely from family counselling sessions on diet, to child-only physical training sessions, to diet and exercise combinations.
Some children in the studies had participated in active treatment programs with an average of about 18 sessions, while others had no treatment or were offered educational sessions only.
The researchers found that the children who had participated in treatment programs experienced an eight to nine per cent reduction in weight status, which is the child’s weight in relation to various factors such as age and height. On the other hand, there was a 2.1 percent increase in weight status among the children without treatment or with education only.
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