Child and adolescent obesity prevention programs - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital


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Obesity Prevention Science

Some of the most effective child and adolescent obesity prevention programs have been developed by researchers at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital’s Center for Healthy Weight and the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Over the past two decades, tens of thousands of children, their families and their schools in Santa Clara, San Mateo and Alameda counties have participated in our child and adolescent obesity prevention research programs.
Pediatric researchers at the Stanford Prevention Research Center have pioneered the successful application of behavioral theories to family-based, school-based and community-based interventions for children and adolescents to:
- Increase physical activity
- Reduce sedentary behaviors (activities that require little or no physical activity)
- Improve eating habits
- Reduce weight gain

A majority of this research is conducted with low-income and/or ethnic minority populations. These groups have been most severely affected by the obesity epidemic and its negative effects on health and well-being.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is located in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford University Hospital, approximately 20 miles north of San Jose, CA and 40 miles south of San Francisco.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
725 Welch Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
(650) 497-8000