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Childhood obesity is increasing, especially in Western countries. Overweight and obese children are more likely to become obese adolescents and obese adults, with obvious physical and psychosocial consequences, and economic expenditures for healthcare systems. Based on the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines, this book provides pediatricians with recommendations and advice for adequate treatment and management of obese and overweight young patients. The included BMI-percentile-for-age calculator supplies the right treatment strategy in accordance with AAP guidelines.

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Angelo Pietrobelli is medical director at Pediatric Clinic, Verona, at Verona University Medical School, and research associate at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. He is editor of the International Journal of Body Composition Research, associate editor at the I nternational Journal of Obesity, associate editor of the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, and a member of the editorial board of Obesity. He has published more than 150 articles in prestigious peer-reviewed international journals, such as the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Pediatrics, International Journal of Obesity, Obesity, the Journal of Physiology, and JAMA. He has also published numerous articles in national and international journals about body composition, the nutrition of pre-term and newborn children, and the prevention and treatment of childhood overweight and obesity. He has published book chapters in national and international books on nutrition and child growth.Steven B. Heymsfield is the Executive Director at Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

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