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- Title: Developing an Active Play Resource for a Range of Australian Early Childhood Settings: Formative Findings and Recommendations (Report)
- Author : Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 253 KB
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Introduction APPROXIMATELY 20 PER CENT of pre-school children in Australia are overweight or obese (Wake, Hardy, Canterford, Sawyer & Carlin, 2006), with this proportion almost doubling in the past decade (Vaska & Volkmer, 2004). Child obesity is now considered one of the most common preventable diseases in Australia and the wider Western society (Lobstein, Baur & Uauy, 2004). Overweight and obesity negatively impact on an individual's morbidity and mortality through physiological and psychological consequences (Must, 1996). It has been shown that prevention is more effective than treatment, which suggests that early childhood settings are important for creating change in health habits (Deghan, Akhtar-Danesh & Merchant, 2005).