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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

Organization	Institute of Medicine
Resource Type	Research Report
URL	http://fermat.nap.edu/catalog/11015.html
Location	National
Publish Date	2005

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A Nation at Risk: Obesity in the United States

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