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Language: en
Pages: 36
Pages: 36
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-28 - Publisher: National Academies Press
The nation faces a growing epidemic of childhood obesity that threatens the immediate health of our children and their prospects of growing up healthy into adul
Language: en
Pages: 44
Pages: 44
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-04 - Publisher: National Academies Press
In 2002, Congress charged the Institute of Medicine (IOM) with developing a prevention-focused action plan to reduce the number of obese children and youth in t
Language: en
Pages: 435
Pages: 435
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-31 - Publisher: National Academies Press
Children's health has made tremendous strides over the past century. In general, life expectancy has increased by more than thirty years since 1900 and much of
Language: en
Pages: 44
Pages: 44
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-04 - Publisher: National Academies Press
In 2002, Congress charged the Institute of Medicine (IOM) with developing a prevention-focused action plan to reduce the number of obese children and youth in t
Language: en
Pages: 494
Pages: 494
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-02-22 - Publisher: National Academies Press
The remarkable increase in the prevalence of obesity among children and youth in the United States over a relatively short timespan represents one of the defini