Family-based intervention for controlling childhood obesity: an experience among Iranian children.

Also, in the hours after school and on holidays, parents were unsupportive and did not have the ability to plan for promoting physical activity because of individual and environmental barriers such as urbanization, lack of safe and easy-access places, family funds, time (working mother, traffic) and pollution, and children had to choose the last option that is watching TV and playing on the computer.[ 35 36 ] It seems that a positive trend was observed toward the intervention group to improvement in blood levels of some biochemical parameters, similar to the Jiang et al .[ 18 ] and Nemet et al .[ 37 ] studies that showed that total cholesterol and triglyceride were decreased in the intervention group.

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