American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 3 , Pages 258-267 , March 2010

Overweight, Obesity, Youth, and Health-Risk Behaviors

  • Tilda Farhat, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to: Tilda Farhat, PhD, MPH, Prevention Research Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 6100 Executive Boulevard, Room 7B13C, Bethesda MD 20892-7510
    • ,
  • Ronald J. Iannotti, PhD
    • ,
  • Bruce G. Simons-Morton, EdD, MPH

References 

  1. Ogden CL, Carroll MD, Curtin LR, McDowell MA, Tabak CJ, Flegal KM. Prevalence of overweight and obesity in the U.S., 1999–2004. JAMA. 2006;295(13):1549–1555
  2. CDC. Youth risk behavior surveillance, U.S. 2007. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2008;57:1–131
  3. Ludwig DS. Childhood obesity—The shape of things to come. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(23):2325–2327
  4. Ebbeling CB, Pawlak DB, Ludwig DS. Childhood obesity: public-health crisis, common sense cure. Lancet. 2002;360(9331):473–482
  5. Baker JL, Olsen LW, Sorensen TIA. Childhood body-mass index and the risk of coronary heart disease in adulthood. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(23):2329–2337
  6. Bibbins-Domingo K, Coxson P, Pletcher MJ, Lightwood J, Goldman L. Adolescent overweight and future adult coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(23):2371–2379
  7. Jessor R. Adolescent development and behavioral health. In:  Matarazzo J,  Weiss S,  Herd J,  Miller N,  Weiss S editor. Behavioral health: a handbook of health enhancement and disease prevention. New York: Wiley; 1984;p. 69–90
  8. Wills TA, Sandy JM, Yaeger AM, Cleary SD, Shinar O. Coping dimensions, life stress, and adolescent substance use: a latent growth analysis. J Abnorm Psychol. 2001;110(2):309–323
  9. Booker CL, Gallaher P, Unger JB, Ritt-Olson A, Johnson CA. Stressful life events, smoking behavior, and intentions to smoke among a multiethnic sample of sixth graders. Ethn Health. 2004;9(4):369–397
  10. Bennett GG, Wolin KY, Robinson EL, Fowler S, Edwards CL. Perceived racial/ethnic harassment and tobacco use among African American young adults. Am J Public Health. 2005;95(2):238–240
  11. Romero AJ, Martinez D, Carvajal SC. Bicultural stress and adolescent risk behaviors in a community sample of Latinos and non-Latino European Americans. Ethn Health. 2007;12(5):443–463
  12. Brady SS, Donenberg GR. Mechanisms linking violence exposure to health risk behavior in adolescence: motivation to cope and sensation seeking. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2006;45(6):673–680
  13. Puhl RM, Moss-Racusin CA, Schwartz MB, Brownell KD. Weight stigmatization and bias reduction: perspectives of overweight and obese adults. Health Educ Res. 2008;23(2):347–358
  14. Young-Hyman D, Tanofsky-Kraff M, Yanovski SZ, et al. Psychological status and weight-related distress in overweight or at-risk-for-overweight children. Obesity. 2006;14(12):2249–2258
  15. Cawley J, Markowitz S, Tauras J. Lighting up and slimming down: the effects of body weight and cigarette prices on adolescent smoking initiation. J Health Econ. 2004;23(2):293–311
  16. Lowry R, Galuska DA, Fulton JE, Wechsler H, Kann L. Weight management goals and practices among U.S. high school students: associations with physical activity, diet, and smoking. J Adolesc Health. 2002;31(2):133–144
  17. Strauss RS. Childhood obesity and self-esteem. Pediatrics. 2000;105(1):e15
  18. Berg IM, Simonsson B, Ringqvist I. Social background, aspects of lifestyle, body image, relations, school situation, and somatic and psychological symptoms in obese and overweight 15-year-old boys in a county in Sweden. Scand J Prim Health Care. 2005;23(2):95–101
  19. Pasch KE, Nelson MC, Lytle LA, Moe SG, Perry CL. Adoption of risk-related factors through early adolescence: associations with weight status and implications for causal mechanisms. J Adolesc Health. 2008;43(4):387–393
  20. Zeller MH, Reiter-Purtill J, Ramey C. Negative peer perceptions of obese children in the classroom environment. Obesity. 2008;16(4):755–762
  21. Janssen I, Craig WM, Boyce WF, Pickett W. Associations between overweight and obesity with bullying behaviors in school-aged children. Pediatrics. 2004;113(5):1187–1194
  22. Griffiths LJ, Wolke D, Page AS, Horwood JP. Obesity and bullying: different effects for boys and girls. Arch Dis Child. 2006;91(2):121–125
  23. McLaren L, Beck CA, Patten SB, Fick GH, Adair CE. The relationship between body mass index and mental health—a population-based study of the effects of the definition of mental health. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2008;43(1):63–71
  24. Adams T, Rini A. Predicting 1-year change in body mass index among college students. J Am Coll Health. 2007;55(6):361–365
  25. Hasler G, Pine DS, Gamma A, et al. The associations between psychopathology and being overweight: a 20-year prospective study. Psychol Med. 2004;34(6):1047–1057
  26. Sanchez A, Norman GJ, Sallis JF, Calfas KJ, Cella J, Patrick K. Patterns and correlates of physical activity and nutrition behaviors in adolescents. Am J Prev Med. 2007;32(2):124–130
  27. Patrick K, Norman GJ, Calfas KJ, et al. Diet, physical activity, and sedentary behaviors as risk factors for overweight in adolescence. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2004;158(4):385–390
  28. Iannotti RJ, Kogan MD, Janssen I, Boyce WF. Patterns of adolescent physical activity, screen-based media use, and positive and negative health indicators in the U.S. and Canada. J Adolesc Health. 2009;44(5):493–499
  29. Larson NI, Story M, Perry C, Neumark-Sztainer DHPJ. Are diet and physical activity patterns related to cigarette smoking in adolescents? (Findings from project EAT). Prev Chronic Dis. 2007;4(3):1–12
  30. Iannotti RJ, Janssen I, Haug E, et al. Interrelationships of adolescent physical activity, screen-based sedentary behaviour, and social and psychological health. Int J Public Health. 2009;54:S1–S8
  31. Plotnikoff RC, Karunamuni N, Spence JC, et al. Chronic disease-related lifestyle risk factors in a sample of Canadian adolescents. J Adolesc Health. 2009;44(6):606–609
  32. Rand CSW, Wright BA. Continuity and change in the evaluation of ideal and acceptable body sizes across a wide age span. Int J Eat Disord. 2000;28(1):90–100
  33. Park E. Gender as a moderator in the association of body weight to smoking and mental health. Am J Public Health. 2009;99(1):146–151
  34. Puhl RM, Andreyeva T, Brownell KD. Perceptions of weight discrimination: prevalence and comparison to race and gender discrimination in America. Int J Obes. 2008;32(6):992–1000
  35. Latner JD, Stunkard AJ. Getting worse: the stigmatization of obese children. Obes Res. 2003;11(3):452–456
  36. Haines J, Neumark-Sztainer D, Hannan PJ, van den Berg P, Eisenberg ME. Longitudinal and secular trends in weight-related teasing during adolescence. Obesity. 2008;16:S18–S23
  37. Currie C, Gabhainn SN, Godeau E. Inequalities in young people's health: International report from the HBSC 2005/06 survey (WHO Policy Series: Health Policy for Children and Adolescents). Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe; 2008;
  38. Goodman E, Hinden BR, Khandelwal S. Accuracy of teen and parental reports of obesity and body mass index. Pediatrics. 2000;106(1):52–58
  39. Dietz WH, Bellizzi MC. Introduction: the use of body mass index to assess obesity in children. Am J Clin Nutr. 1999;70(1):123S–125S
  40. Kuczmarski RJ, Ogden CL, Guo SS, et al. 2000 CDC growth charts for the U.S.: methods and development. Vital Health Stat 11. 2002;(246):1–190
  41. Topolski TD, Patrick DL, Edwards TC, Huebner CE, Connell FA, Mount KK. Quality of life and health-risk behaviors among adolescents. J Adoles Health. 2001;29(6):426–435
  42. Johnston LD, O'Malley PM, Bachman JG, Schulemberg JE. Monitoring the future national survey results on drug use, 1975–2007, Vol. I: secondary school students (NIH Publication No. 08-6418A). Bethesda MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse; 2008;
  43. Nansel TR, Overpeck M, Pilla RS, Ruan WJ, Simons-Morton B, Scheidt P. Bullying behaviors among U.S. youth—prevalence and association with psychosocial adjustment. J Am Med Assoc. 2001;285(16):2094–2100
  44. Stevens SJ, Murphy BS, McKnight K. Traumatic stress and gender differences in relationship to substance abuse, mental health, physical health, and HIV risk behavior in a sample of adolescents enrolled in drug treatment. Child Maltreat. 2003;8(1):46–57
  45. Rohrbach L, Milam J. Gender issues in drug prevention. In:  Bukowski W,  Sloboda Z editor. Handbook of drug use: theory, science and practice. New York: Plenum Press; 2002;p. 343–355
  46. Suris JC, Parera N. Sex, drugs and chronic illness: health behaviours among chronically ill youth. Eur J Public Health. 2005;15(5):484–488
  47. Card NA, Stucky BD, Sawalani GM, Little TD. Direct and indirect aggression during childhood and adolescence: a meta-analytic review of gender differences, intercorrelations, and relations to maladjustment. Child Dev. 2008;79(5):1185–1229
  48. Latner JD, Stunkard AJ, Wilson GT. Stigmatized students: age, sex, and ethnicity effects in the stigmatization of obesity. Obes Res. 2005;13(7):1226–1231
  49. McGuire W, McGuire C. The spontaneous self-concept as affected by personal distinctiveness. In:  Lynch M,  Normen-Hebeisnen A,  Gergen K editor. Self-concept: advances in theory and research. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger; 1981;p. 147–171
  50. Reilly JJ. Descriptive epidemiology and health consequences of childhood obesity. Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2005;19(3):327–341

PII: S0749-3797(09)00826-5

doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2009.10.038

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 3 , Pages 258-267 , March 2010

Article Tools