An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound a Physician's Toolkit to Prevent Childhood Obesity

An abstract of Weidenbenner et al's study, which identified the barriers physicians experience in providing nutrition and physical activity guidance to caregivers of overweight/obese children and implemented the components of the Ounce of Prevention toolkit in physician's offices or other healthcare setting, is presented. Moreover, study results suggest that Ounce of Prevention should be distributed to primary care practices, schools, WIC, Well-Child clinics and other public health settings. Also, they suggest that practicing registered dietitians can facilitate implementation of Ounce toolkits by providing trainings to the various settings.