HEALTH MANAGEMENT. White House childhood obesity task force must focus on the treatment for minority children

The White House task force on childhood obesity, created by the President as part of the first lady "Let's move" campaign, is resolved to be the epidemic of obesity within a generation rising the land at a rate of 5 percent by 2030, what began in the late 1970s the rate before obesity by the year.
A recent U-M study, published online before using print in obesity journal researchers evaluated the balance of prevention and treatment, for the objectives, by the task force may 2010-report ordered.
Is a shared emphasis on the prevention of obesity and treatment strategies required to achieve this goal, according to researchers. Prevention programmes solely deal with according to the epidemic, the children, who are already obese, especially minorities. Obesity treatment strategies have an important part of the equation.
"There are many discussions on the prevention of obesity for children." This is certainly important, but it is not the whole story. "Because so many children are already overweight, it need greater efforts focused on treatment, if we succeed", Joyce M. LEE, MD, mph, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and communicable diseases at the U-M medical school and a U-M c.s.. clinician says Mott Childrens Hospital.
Rates of obesity in the United States are much higher for minority children, with 20% black and Mexican-American children affected, with only 15 percent for white children childhood. Because the burden of obesity is so high, the study includes prevention strategies alone will not help, the task force, be to achieve objective.
"Effective treatment strategies, in particular targeted minority children, in particular are needed," says Lee, the lead author of the study.
The research suggests that healthy hunger-free kids act of 2010, reverse progress efforts to the obesity epidemic can help recent legislation, including the. The law increased financial support for the national school lunch program, offering free or reduced price meals to students with low income.
However, the researchers say that the law the affected by obesity can have a greater impact on the prevention of obesity in healthy children, instead of reducing obesity in children.
"It is not enough only to develop new, culturally relevant and effective treatment strategies focused on minority children be." "We the financial obstacles to these treatment strategies for children in households with low income, of which there are many racial / ethnic minorities, must reduce", says Lee.
Only ten States include offered obesity nutritional and behavioral therapy by programs such as Medicaid. Given the number of disadvantaged children, which are likely to be more obese, but is it important to say that this scheme for all authors available.
"The health care reform bill passed an important role in the cover for overweight children, can play in 2010 as requires it, new health plans to cover obesity screening and counseling for children," says Lee.
Source: University of Michigan health system
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