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Etiologies of obesity in children: nature and nurture.

Pediatric clinics of North America - 1 Dec 2011

Skelton Joseph A, Irby Megan B, Grzywacz Joseph G, Miller Gary

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Childhood obesity is a profoundly complex problem and serves as an example of a biospsychosocial issue. Scientific inquiry has provided incredible insight into the complex etiology of weight gain but must be viewed as an interaction between a human's propensity to conserve calories for survival in a world with an abundance of it. This article provides a brief overview divided between biological (nature) and...

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PMID: 22093854
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2011.09.006
PMCID: PMC3224976

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