Editorial

Addressing Childhood Obesity in Primary Care Practice: A Challenge and an Opportunity

Authors: Michael A. Tolle, MD, MPH

Abstract

With appropriate fanfare, First Lady Michelle Obama formally announced in February the far-reaching Let's Move campaign, directed at eliminating in a generation America's epidemic of childhood obesity.1 Encouraging involvement from a broad range of sectors–public, private, nonprofits, parents and youth–Let's Move specifically tasks healthcare providers with a critical role in helping the campaign reach its chief target of returning to a childhood obesity rate of only 5% by 2030, the rate before childhood obesity began increasing in the 1980s to its current prevalence of nearly 20%.2

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