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Handbook of Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Assessment

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The rising incidence of obesity is linked to significant health consequences and medical expenditures. Childhood overweight and obesity increase the risk for numerous disease conditions and a shortened life-span. Obesity is caused by consuming more calories than you expend, but it is more complex than simply counting calories in and calories out. Many additional factors affect and alter this calculation and require a more layered conceptualization of the individual with obesity. Appropriately and accurately categorizing obesity can assist with this more nuanced approach and therefore improve assessment and application of effective interventions. Interventions are focused on modifying dynamic risk factors identified during the assessment and should proceed in a person- and cultural-sensitive manner.

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