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​An Initial Goal for Management of Overweight and Obesity in Children

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​An initial goal for management of overweight and obesity in children is to encourage moderate weight loss.


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Initial Understanding

The basic or preliminary comprehension of a subject or situation before deeper knowledge is acquired.

Conservation

The principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.

Piaget's Stages

A theory describing the cognitive development of children, segmented into four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

Sensorimotor Stage

In Piaget’s theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

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