Obesity

Kelly Lowry

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Chapter 25. Obesity

Kelly Walker Lowry, Ph.D.

DOI: 10.1176/appi.books.9781585623921.461373

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Pediatric obesity has quickly become a national epidemic with significant medical and psychological consequences. Obesity results from an imbalance between food intake and energy output, leading to excessive levels of adipose tissue. Although once an adaptive survival mechanism, excessive adipose tissue now poses significant pathophysiological risk in the current environment of dietary abundance and limited physical activity (Daniels et al. 2005).

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