Child And Adolescent Obesity Causes And Consequences, Prevention And Management

Chaired the Committee on Nutrition and Physical Activity in the Danish Government's 10 year Programme on Health Promotion and Prevention. Chair of the Congress Organising Committee of the 5th International Congress on Behavioral Medicine (Copenhagen 1998). Former Secretary (3 years), now board member of the European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG). Published several papers on childhood obesity. For instance Lancet 1994 about the strong effect of parental neglect on developing obesity in young adulthood. From 2001 Danish member of European Association for the Study of Obesity's (EASO) Pediatric Task Force Group Founder member and former Scientific Secretary of The Danish Society of Psychosocial Medicine (6 years). Member of editorial board of International Journal of Behavioral MedicineBurniat, Walter is the author of 'Child And Adolescent Obesity Causes And Consequences, Prevention And Management', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521026642 and ISBN 0521026644.