OBESITY

Obesity in Adolescents

Obesity in Adolescence

This paper seeks to provide a review of articles related to obesity in adolescence. Three articles have been selected closely related to the topic.

Article 1

First article selected for the paper is entitled as "Child and adolescent obesity in the 21st century: an Australian Perspective" by Baur, published in 2002.

In this research article, author emphasizes that the 21st century is considered as the global epidemic of obesity in both traditional and western societies. In Australia, one in every five adolescents is obese or over weight. The author highlights that obesity and prevalence of being overweight causes both short ...