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School year versus summer differences in child weight gain: a narrative review.
Childhood obesity (Print) - 1 Feb 2014
Baranowski Tom, O'Connor Teresia, Johnston Craig, Hughes Sheryl, Moreno Jennette, Chen Tzu-An, Meltzer Lisa, Baranowski Janice
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The causes of the current high prevalence of overweight and obesity among children are not clearly known. Schools have been implicated in the causal chain to high child obesity prevalence. Recent studies have compared school year versus summertime changes (herein called seasonal differences) in child adiposity or related phenomena. The most common seasonal pattern in six longitudinal descriptive studies was that...
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