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Topic: Childhood Obesity News - Obesity: weighing on the minds of Europeans - Cordis News

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Led by the University of Bremen, Bremen Institute of Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS), the IDEFICS-Study (’Identification and prevention of dietary- and lifestyle-induced health effects in children and infants’) will also develop, implement and assess specific activities for neutralising the obesity epidemic. The difference between the IDEFICS study and past studies, says Professor Ahrens, is that for the first time in Europe it will be possible to assess and compare the factors putting children at risk of obesity in nine European states. Professor Ahrens underlines that children will be the biggest benefactors from the study and the Intervention Programme, ‘in the sense that healthy eating, sports activities and relaxation are embedded in their lifestyle. Seventeen of the 23 partners represent research institutes and universities, and six are SMEs, whose ‘experience ranges from media expertise in science transfer and its use on the Internet and TV, via the development of new technology (accelerometers) and the application of innovative laboratory methods’, he says. Read Childhood Obesity

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