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Addressing the epidemic of childhood obesity through school-based interventions: what has been done and where do we go from here?

Peterson KE, Fox MK

Public Health Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Schools are ideal settings for implementing multi-component programs to prevent and control childhood obesity. Thoughtful improvements to proven strategies, coupled with careful evaluation, can contribute to accumulation of evidence needed to design and implement the next generation of optimal interventions.

Published 7 March 2007 in J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 113-30.
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