The blind spot in the drive for childhood obesity prevention: bringing eating disorders prevention into focus as a public health priority.
The blind spot in the drive for childhood obesity prevention: bringing eating disorders prevention into focus as a public health priority.
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DOI：
10.2105/ajph.2011.300182
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发表时间：
2011-06-01
影响因子：
12.7
通讯作者：
Austin, S Bryn
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作者：
Austin, S Bryn
随着流行病的日益严重，公众健康对儿童肥胖的关注也随之增加，但尽管如此，预防方面的成功却远远落后。我们在预防儿童肥胖的努力中存在一个盲点，导致我们无法制定足够广泛的解决方案。饮食失调和一系列危险的体重控制行为就属于这个盲点。越来越多的证据表明，肥胖和饮食失调以多种方式存在联系，但有关饮食失调的根深蒂固的神话削弱了我们在肥胖预防干预研究中看到全方位杠杆点的能力。我们预防儿童肥胖的努力不能再忽视饮食失调和持续存在的相关行为的组合。
Public health attention to childhood obesity has increased in tandem with the growing epidemic, but despite this intense focus, successes in prevention have lagged far behind. There is a blind spot in our drive for childhood obesity prevention that prevents us from generating sufficiently broad solutions. Eating disorders and the constellation of perilous weight-control behaviors are in that blind spot. Evidence is mounting that obesity and eating disorders are linked in myriad ways, but entrenched myths about eating disorders undermine our ability to see the full range of leverage points to target in obesity preventive intervention studies. Our efforts to prevent childhood obesity can no longer afford to ignore eating disorders and the assemblage of related behaviors that persist unabated.