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Obesity Programs: ThaoTarget population: specially focused on preventing childhoodobesity on children between 0 and 12 years old.Method: 2 important steps. First, to inform those involved inchildren´s environment to try to avoid the tendency to weightgain. Second, teach health professionals to detect overweightchildren and start treating them.Aims: To promote healthy eating habits and encourage childrento do physical activities.Developed by: Thao Foundation in Spain. The program isimplemented in Spanish municipalities. It started on 5municipalities. At the moment there are involved 84 town councils