Obesity Prevention In Urban Settings: Creating Healthy Environments
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Schools and obesity prevention: creating school environments and policies to promote healthy eating and physical activity.
CONTEXT Research consistently shows that the majority of American children do not consume diets that meet the recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, nor do they achieve adequate levels of daily physical activity. As a result, more children are overweight today than at any other time in U.S. history. Schools offer many opportunities to develop strategies to prevent obesity by c...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Health Sciences (AJHS)
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2157-9636,2156-7794
DOI: 10.19030/ajhs.v4i1.7597