PWM: Individual Sessions in Multicomponent Pediatric Weight
Management Interventions
➤ The RDN can include individual sessions as part of the multi-component
pediatric weight management intervention. Treatment that relied
exclusively on individual pediatric weight management sessions with or
without family participation was associated with shorter-term positive
weight status outcomes. Information about the longer-term impact on
weight status are mixed. (Fair, Imperative)
PWM: Fast Food Meal Frequency in Children and Teens
➤ If the overweight or obese child or teen consumes fast-food meals, the
RDN should encourage reduction in the frequency of fast-food intake to
less than twice a week. Limited evidence in populations eight to 16 years of
age at baseline, suggests that higher frequency of fast-food consumption,
particularly more than twice a week is associated with increased adiposity;
BMI Z-score; or risk of obesity during childhood, adolescence and during
the transition from adolescence into adulthood. (Weak, Conditional)