Simple Measures Help Prevent Excess Weight Gain in Kids
Physician's First Watch for October 25, 2007
Small changes in activity and diet help overweight children limit their weight gain, a Pediatrics study reports.
Researchers randomized nearly 200 families with at least one child who was overweight (or at risk) either to a program that advocated taking an additional 2000 steps daily and reducing calories by 100 kcal or to a control group that simply self-monitored steps taken. (The study sponsor was the manufacturer of a noncaloric sweetener provided to the intervention group.)
After 6 months, both groups showed significant decreases in BMI for age, but the between-group differences were not significant. More children in the intervention group maintained or reduced their BMI for age; fewer in that group showed an increase.
The authors comment that the result still left most of the subjects in the overweight category, but, they say, "it is better than continuing to gain excessive weight."
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