ABSTRACT
In his foreword to the edited volume Child and Adolescent Obesity, William H. Dietz writes:
Rarely have we had the opportunity to observe an epidemic of chronic disease occur before our eyes. The questions and challenges that the epidemic provokes provide us with an exciting and unique opportunity to shape a new field. As Winston Churchill once said: ‘Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.’
(Dietz 2002: xvii)