Art and Obesity: Let’s Dance

Youth & Family

Art and Obesity: Let’s Dance
By Janet Treadwell, RN, MSN, PhD and Angelo Giardino, MD, PhD
August 1, 2012

A national concern exists regarding child and adolescent overweight and obesity. One reason is that obese children become obese adults (Biro, Wien, 2010). Overweight adolescents and adults are at serious risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and depression (Ahren, Phalen, Le, & Goldman, 2007). In...

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