Family-focused intervention programs are insufficient to prevent obesity in young children

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Family-focused intervention programs are insufficient to prevent obesity in young children, according to a large study published in The Lancet by the international TOPCHILD Consortium, of which RAD-blog researchers Levie Karssen and Junilla Larsen are members. The prevention of obesity in children must be addressed at a structural and environmental level in order to have a real impact.

Read more about this in this interesting press link from Sydney:

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/09/11/family-based-intervention-programs-are-insufficient-to-prevent-childhood-obesity-major-study-finds.html

Read the paper in The Lancet here:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01144-4/fulltext