All’interno del progetto, alcune scelte tecniche e strategiche (modalità di indagine su attività fisica e alimentazione, tipologia degli strumenti adottati ecc…) sono dettate dall’evidenza riscontrata in letteratura.

Alcuni articoli di particolare interesse, con il consenso degli autori e delle riviste, sono in corso di traduzione in italiano:

• Position of the American Dietetic Association: Individual-, Family-, School-, and Community-Based Interventions for Pediatric Overweight
  J Am Diet Assoc. 2006;106:925-945.
   
• A simplified general method for cluster-sample surveys of health in developing countries
  World Health Stat Q 44(3), 98-106, 1991.
   
• Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey
  Bmj  2000;320;1240.
  
  
• Children as respondents in survey research: cognitive development and response quality
  Bulletin de Méthodologie sociologique, april 2000, n.66, pp.60-75.
   
• Predicting obesity in adults from childhood and adolescent weight
  Am J Clin Nutr 2002;76:497–8.
   
• Screening and Interventions for Childhood Overweight: A Summary of Evidence for the US Preventive Services Task Force
  Pediatrics Vol. 116 No. 1 July 2005.
   
• Association between child and adolescent television viewing and adult health: a longitudinal birth cohort study
  Lancet 2004; 364: 257–62.
   
• Introduction: the use of body mass index to assess obesity in children
  Am J Clin Nutr 1999;70(suppl):123S–5S.
   
• Predicting overweight and obesity in adulthood from body mass index values in childhood and adolescence
  Am J Clin Nutr 2002;76:653–8.
   
• Measurement of dietary intake in children
  Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (2000), 59, 279–293.
   
• Strategies for the prevention and control of obesity in the school setting: systematic review and meta-analysis
  International journal of obesity (2007) 1-11.
  
  
• Health consequences of obesity
  Arch. Dis. Child. 2003;88;748-752.
   
• How active are we? Levels of routine physical activity in children and adults
  Proceedings of the nutrition society (2003), 62, 681-701.
  
  
• The role of school in preventing childhood obesity
  The State Education Standard Vol. 5, No. 2 December 2004.