Thursday, 16 August 2012

Caloric Calculator Could Help Fight Childhood Obesity

Caloric calculator helps assess the potential impact of healthy policy choices on childhood obesity. Select a target population (middle-school-age boys, for example) and the Caloric Calculator tells you the percentage of this group who are obese (18%) and the average daily calorie cuts necessary to meet two goals: returning them to obesity levels for that population in the year 2000 and the early 1970s (109 and 237 kcal, respectively). The user can then choose ...

via Medindia Health News More READ

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