Letters
Lifestyle and childhood obesity
Authors’ reply to Metcalf and Wilkin
BMJ 2012; 344 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e717 (Published 31 January 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;344:e717- J J Puder, assistant professor1,
- P Marques-Vidal, assistant professor2,
- C Schindler, statistician3,
- L Zahner, assistant professor4,
- I Niederer, research assistant4,
- F Bürgi, research assistant4,
- V Ebenegger, research assistant5,
- A Nydegger, senior lecturer6,
- S Kriemler, assistant professor3
- 1Service of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne
- 3Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Socinstrasse 57, 4002 Basel
- 4Institute of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Basel, Birsstrasse 320b, 4052 Basel
- 5Institute of Sport Sciences, University of Lausanne, Bâtiments administratifs de Vidy, Route de Chavannes 33, 1015 Lausanne
- 6Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne
- jardena.puder{at}chuv.ch
Childhood obesity is complex.1 We acknowledged that to change behaviour and prevent childhood obesity is difficult when acting in only one sector—in this case, schools—especially in a socially disadvantaged population.2 However, this difficulty should not prevent all sectors from playing their part. In addition, a shift of the population median by a …
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