... initiatives to prevent further increases in its prevalence. Obesity is a condition of measured excess adipose tissue associated with adverse health outcomes (Pi-Sunyer 2000; Troiano & Flegal, 1998) An International Obesity Task Force workshop (Bellizzi & Dietz, 1999) and the NHMRC of Australia (1997) have recommended the use of BMI (kg/m2) for age reference centiles as the most simple and ... reasonable clarification of obesity. Experts on obesity have consistently sought an ... than caloric need is a conditioned response, established in childhood, and may be a completely unconscious a...

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