The study lifestyle and dietary habits in overweight adolescents.

Abstract

Television viewing, lack of physical activity, and intake of fast food and soft drinks are examined as potential contributing factors to the rapid increase in the prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents. Children should be helped to develop healthy nutrition and exercise habits early, since interventions are most effective when behaviors are still being formed. Prevention could be the key strategy for controlling the current epidemic of obesity Families and schools are the two most critical links in providing the foundation for those behaviors.