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Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance
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This major report provides an action plan for researchers, professionals and advocates around the country to address childhood obesity. One of the key recommendations specifically addresses the built environment, citing an urgent need to design for health



OrganizationInstitute of Medicine
Resource TypeResearch Report
URLhttp://fermat.nap.edu/catalog/11015.html
LocationNational
Publish Date2005

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