Preventing Childhood Obesity - Evidence Policy and Practice.pdf

Part 4
infrastructure, funding or research capacity to manage
it. As Juliana Kain and colleagues point out in Chapter
32 , these countries are suffering from a double burden
of undernutrition and overnutrition, which is often
evident even in the same household.
Bill Dietz, who has been a pioneer in obesity
research at a clinical and public health level for several
decades has the final word. From this wide vantage
point, he is able to draw many parallels with other
epidemics about the role of grass - roots mobiliztions,
the importance of policy and so on, and gazes into his
crystal ball to give us his predictions for the future of
obesity prevention.
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