Handbook of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

Within the past two generations alone, child and adolescent obesity has more than doubled for some age groups and tripled for others. Consequently, the extraordinary number of school-age children now being diagnosed with what were once considered adult-on

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Handbook of

Handbook of Childhood and

Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Edited by

Elissa Jelalian and Ric G. Steele

Handbook of

Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

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Handbook of

Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Edited by

Elissa Jelalian Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Ric G. Steele University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

Editors Elissa Jelalian, Ph.D. Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Providence, RI USA [email protected]

Ric G. Steele, Ph.D., ABPP Clinical Child Psychology Program University of Kansas Lawrence, KS USA [email protected]

ISBN: 978-0-387-76922-6 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-76924-0 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-76924-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007941929 © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Sp