Recorded: EIP 2015 ● Language: English ● Duration: 21 minutes ● Topic: Adolescent Medicine

     
 

Speaker: NAMANJEET AHLUWALIA, Chair, Nutrition Epidemiology Research Interest Section, American Society of Nutrition; Adjunct Professor, Pennsylvania State University; Nutrition Monitoring Advisor, NHANES, NCHS, CDC, USA

  
     
  Learning Objectives: At the end of the Session participants will: (1) understand the complex epidemiology of overweight in kids; (2) learn the time trends in the prevalence of overweight in 11-, 13-, and 15-year olds in 25 countries in the HBSC survey from 2002-2010; and (3) understand the geographic patterns in overweight prevalence trends during these 3 survey cycles of the HBSC study