PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gluckman, Peter D.
AU  - Hanson, Mark
AU  - Zimmet, Paul
AU  - Forrester, Terrence
TI  - Losing the War Against Obesity: The Need for a Developmental Perspective
AID  - 10.1126/scitranslmed.3002554
DP  - 2011 Jul 27
TA  - Science Translational Medicine
PG  - 93cm19--93cm19
VI  - 3
IP  - 93
4099  - http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/3/93/93cm19.short
4100  - http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/3/93/93cm19.full
AB  - Developed countries are struggling to control epidemics of obesity and related chronic diseases; thus, we can expect only limited success from applying the current approaches to the developing world, which is experiencing an alarming increase in such disorders. This failure results in part from the fact that our focus on adult life-styles, although important, ignores data that suggest that biological and cultural factors operating early in life affect adult health status. To stem the rising obesity burden in developing countries, scientists and policy-makers must address obesity-promoting factors from early development to adulthood.