Mary Story

TL;DR: The Girls Health Enrichment Multisite Studies program, which had the goal of developing and pilot testing culturally appropriate interventions to prevent excessive weight gain in 8- to 10-year-old African-American girls, provides an additional important opportunity to understand the correlates of obesity in this popula-tion.

TL;DR: The Project EAT (Eating Among Teens) study as mentioned in this paper found that overweight American Indian adolescents watched more hours of television/videos, greater use of weight control behaviors, less frequent snacking, caring less about fitness, lower body satisfaction, and greater parental concern about weight.

TL;DR: Investigation of the effects of summer vacation between kindergarten and first grade on growth in height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) for a sample of American Indian children found no indication of a significant summer effect on children's BMI.

TL;DR: Future interventions should target adolescents who are using weight-controlling behaviors to prevent future eating disturbances and psychosocial and health morbidities.