Reducing risk of childhood obesity in the wake of covid-19

BMJ. 2021 Aug 10:374:n1716. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n1716.

¹ Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia alexandra.chung@monash.edu.
² Global Obesity Centre (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Australia.
³ Obesity Research and Care Group, School of Physiotherapy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.
⁴ Austrian Academic Institute for Clinical Nutrition, Vienna, Austria.
⁵ World Obesity Federation, London, UK.
⁶ Division of Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
⁷ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Abstract

Alexandra Chung and colleagues call for governments to prioritise child obesity as they implement measures to recover from the pandemic