Reducing obesity and related chronic disease risk in children and youth: a synthesis of evidence with ‘best practice’ recommendations

By M. Flynn, Deborah A. McNeil, B. Maloff, D. Mutasingwa, M. Wu, C. Ford, S. Tough. Obesity Reviews, 2006

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A Better Index of Body Adiposity (2011, background): “Thus, there have been heroic efforts to attempt to reverse the increase in obesity, although such reversal has proved intractable in many situations (6).”
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