RESOURCES
- Center for Weight and Health, UC Berkeley
Berkeley's Center for Weight and Health is very active in gathering and publishing information about childhood obesity. Our Overweight Children is partially based on research that Sharron Dalton conducted at this Center. Check out their Center Research and Outreach page, including a section on what communities can do to stop the obesity crisis and their links to Model Programs.
- Child Magazine -- One Child's Food Makeover
Sharron Dalton is featured in the April issue of Child magazine. This article is titled "One Child's Food Makeover" and recommends how by making simple changes in one child's daily food intake (i.e., small cup vs. large cup of juice; baked chicken instead of fried; vegetable pizza vs. pepperoni), 1400 calories were shaved off!
- Parent Soup: 6 Ways to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Parent Soup (iVillage) pulled 6 tips from Our Overweight Children for its members.
- Overweightkids - Helping your overweight child
A support group for parents with overweight children that discusses ways to help overweight children lose weight and also how to boost their self-esteem, keep them happy and hopefully healthy.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sharron Dalton is Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She is the editor of, most recently, Overweight and Weight Management: The Health Professional's Guide to Understanding and Practice (1997).
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