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Dr Shirley Alexander

Childhood and Adolescent Obesity –Management From a GP Perspective

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Alicia Grunseit

But What About Food? Dietary Changes for Weight Management

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A/Prof Samantha Hocking

Obesity Management in Young Adults

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Prof Susan Prescott

Early Life Solutions to the Modern Health Crisis

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Childhood and Adolescent Obesity –Management From a GP Perspective
Dr Shirley Alexander

Children who have obesity are more likely to become adults with obesity. If children have obesity, their obesity and disease risk factors in adulthood are likely to be more severe. Managing obesity in children involves a whole family approach with a strong focus on dietary habits and other healthy lifestyle habits. Strategies to discuss obesity issues with parents and children are also an important part of the strategy.

But What About Food? Dietary Changes for Weight Management
Alicia Grunseit

Obesity Management in Young Adults
A/Prof Samantha Hocking

Young adults – especially those who are already overweight – experience the highest rate of weight gain of any age group, further increasing cardiometabolic risk. Interventions need to be adapted and designed specifically for this age group. Strategies should include technology, flexible scheduling, an emphasis on ‘fitness’ rather than ‘weight loss’ and engagement with peers or groups rather than individuals. Pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery are also options to consider as part of an integrated approach.

Early Life Solutions to the Modern Health Crisis
Prof Susan Prescott

Obesity risk, and in fact the risk for most of the common non-communicable diseases, begins at conception, and even before that, with the health of the parents. Factors that occur at critical stages of our development can have a far more profound effect on health than the same exposure later in life. This also means that to truly overcome the rising rates of modern disease, of which obesity is a major example, we must target prevention from the first moments of life. In this context there is now substantial evidence that initiatives to promote a healthy start to life can reduce the risk of both early and later chronic disease, including obesity.

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