Nurse Practitioners and Childhood Obesity

Nurse Practitioners and Childhood Obesity

Problem Statement

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity and overweight have reached epidemic characters worldwide. The figures are frightening. More than one billion adults are overweight and of those, at least 300 million are obese (Ortega, Ruiz, et al, 2007). The growth of childhood obesity is spectacular and worrying: If 15 years ago, 5 percent of children were obese, this share is now 16 percent. For many families, having a child fat, plump, and full of folds is quite an achievement, a sign that the baby is healthy, strong, and full health ...