Our review demonstrates an intensive increase of overweight and obesity prevalent among children and adolescents both in developed and developing countries. Mostly this is true for areaswith environmental problems and for the populations with low income and literacy or unhealthy style of life, including improperly organized leisure activities for children. Emphasized the importance of primary care physicians – pediatricians, school and family physicians, as well as parents and teachers to detection violations of the age and sex norms, risk factors, for timely prevention and correction of obesity in children and adolescents. Presents recommendations for the implementation of preventive activities at different levels – in families, among pregnant women, infants, and preschool and school age children, in the municipal Centers of Health. Naturally, not all of them are in the review recommendations may be rapidly implemented, but in general they can serve as a good example for the development of an unified, adequate specific conditions of society strategy for the prevention of obesity in adults since childhood and even from the prenatal period.
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