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Making WAVES against a tsunami of childhood obesity

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The WAVES study, a large randomized controlled trial of school-based childhood obesity prevention, recently reported disappointing outcomes. However, considering the environmental assaults that challenge children’s abilities to eat, play and move for health, it is unrealistic to expect education programmes alone to create the systems-level change necessary to reverse the rising tide of obesity.

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Raine, K.D. Making WAVES against a tsunami of childhood obesity. Nat Rev Endocrinol 14, 325–326 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-018-0019-z

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