The joint influence of diet and increased physical activity in obese children.

The authors performed a three week treatment and examination of 20 children with obesity of non-endocrine origin, and they compared the examination results with those of healthy children. The treatment of the obese children consisted of a diet and an individually determined training programme. In the course of the examinations it was established that the weight of the obese children decreased, their physical working capacity increased, their glucose and fat metabolism showed a tendency to improve. On the basis of all their findings authors wish to stress the importance of the primary and secondary prevention of cardio-vascular diseases as early as in childhood.