At risk of entirely taking the blame off of parents and children, my
suggestion is to start focusing our "interventions" on the source of
this problem, our food supply.  Only when our food supply is returned to
the way it is supposed to be, and the food industry is no longer
permitted to target our children (and us) with their processed and
convenience food ads, not even mentioning their tendency to not tell the
public the truth about their products, will we see an actual change in
the public's weight.  This is not an individual behaviour problem, this
is a problem on a population level, our food supply has changed so
drastically over the past 40 or 50 years and now the symptom of this
problem is overweight and obesity.  Let's all start focusing on dealing
with the source problem, that is my recommendation.

Tanya Beattie, Public Health Promoter


-----Original Message-----
From: Health Promotion on the Internet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Linda H. Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [CLICK4HP] Obesity Interventions

At the risk of putting my tongue right in my cheek, ' brief intervention
' 
would be to say hello to the youngster and then go work the bigger 
intervention on the parents!!

Sorry, couldn't resist as I see so many children being parented with
food 
and not consistent parenting and family habits...

Been there and still fighting it!

Linda RN BA

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Subject: [CLICK4HP] Obesity Interventions
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:29:51 -0000

Hello,



Just wondering if anyone knew of any research into the effectiveness of
"brief intervention" work to support weight loss, particularly with
children.



Many thanks,



Ellen Nicholson

Public Health Policy and Performance Officer

NHS Cambridgeshire

Ph 01223 884805

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