Decreasing sedentary behaviors in treating pediatric obesity.

By Leonard H. Epstein, Rocco A Paluch, C. C. Gordy, J. Dorn. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

• A randomized trial of the effects of reducing television viewing and computer use on body mass index in young children. (2008, background): “19,41 The association of television viewing with eating supports the need to explore the reduction of television advertising as a way to avoid over-eating and obesity in youth.”
• Childhood overweight: a contextual model and recommendations for future research (2001, background): “Similarly, in a treatment study for obese children, decreases in sedentary behaviour were associated with decreases in percent overweight and percent body fat (108).”
• Systematic review of sedentary behaviour and health indicators in school-aged children and youth (2011, background): “An intervention reported that targeting decreased sedentary behaviour lead to increases in aerobic fitness [56].”