Shams-White Marissa, Deuster Patricia
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA, 02111, USA.
Consortium for Health and Military Performance, A DoD Center of Excellence, Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA.
Curr Obes Rep. 2017 Jun;6(2):155-162. doi: 10.1007/s13679-017-0258-7.
The objective was to review prevention efforts and approaches attempting to limit the problem of obesity in the military.
Various individual-level initiatives have emerged, including programs promoting healthy cooking, meal planning, and other behavior changes among service members. Importantly, the military is attempting to tackle environmental factors contributing to the rise of obesity, by focusing on many recent environmental-level interventions and initiatives to improve military dining facilities and examine and modify other aspects of installations' built environments. Although published research within the military setting directed towards obesity prevention is limited, many innovative programs have been launched and need to be followed forward. The review of past and ongoing efforts can be an important step in identifying specific areas needing improvement, gaps that should be considered, lessons learned, and characteristics of successful programs that should be disseminated as best practices and further expanded.
目的是回顾旨在限制军队肥胖问题的预防措施和方法。
出现了各种针对个人层面的举措，包括促进军人健康烹饪、膳食计划及其他行为改变的项目。重要的是，军队正试图通过关注近期许多环境层面的干预措施和举措来解决导致肥胖率上升的环境因素，以改善军队餐饮设施，并检查和改变设施建筑环境的其他方面。尽管针对军队环境中预防肥胖的已发表研究有限，但已启动了许多创新项目，需要继续推进。回顾过去和正在进行的努力可能是识别需要改进的特定领域、应考虑的差距、吸取的经验教训以及成功项目的特点的重要一步，这些成功项目的特点应作为最佳实践进行传播并进一步推广。
