Introducing the issue

Future of Children

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-17

  Paxson, Christina ^a   Donahue, Elisabeth ^b   Tracy Orleans, C ^c   Grisso, Jeanne Ann ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADVERTIZING; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; BONE DISEASE; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; JUVENILE DIABETES MELLITUS; LIVER DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SCHOOL; SITTING; SLEEP DISORDER;

EID: 33645314376     PISSN: 10548289     EISSN: 15501558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/foc.2006.0008     Document Type: Review

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2. S. Jay Olshansky and others, "A Potential Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century," New England Journal of Medicine 352 (2005): 1138-45. An editorial in the same volume, however, cautioned that this claim may be overstated.
3. See Samuel H. Preston, "Deadweight? The Influence of Obesity on Longevity," New England Journal of Medicine 352 (2005): 1135-37.
4. Guijing Wang and William H. Dietz, "Economic Burden of Obesity in Youths Aged 7 to 17 Years: 1979-1999," Pediatrics 109, 5 (2002): E81.
5. Roland Sturm, "The Effects of Obesity, Smoking, and Drinking on Medical Problems and Costs," Health Affairs 21, no. 2 (2002): 245-53.
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10. In imperial measurements, the calculation is (weight in pounds/height in inches [squared]) x 703.
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15. See Children's Television Act of 1990, P.L. 101-437; Children's Internet Protection Act, P.L. 106-554; Code of Federal Regulations 47, sec. 73.670 (1991 FCC rule limiting commercials aimed at children); 15 U.S.C. 1335 (congressional prohibition of advertisements for tobacco on radio and television). See also People of State of California v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (2004), which let stand a lower court decision that sanctioned R. J. Reynolds for targeting youth with tobacco advertising in magazines with a teen audience of 15 percent or more - a violation of the tobacco litigation Master Settlement Agreement.
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18. Howard L. Taras and others, "Television's Influence on Children's Diet and Physical Activity," Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 10 (1989): 176-80.
19. 15 U.S.C. 1335.
20. Adam Gilden Tsai and others, "Availability of Nutrition Services for Medicaid Recipients in the Northeastern United States: Lack of Uniformity and the Positive Effect of Managed Care," American Journal of Managed Care 9, no. 12 (2003): 817-21.
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