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Identifying behavioral phenotypes for childhood obesity.
Appetite - 1 Aug 2018
Kral Tanja V E, Moore Reneé H, Chittams Jesse, Jones Elizabeth, O'Malley Lauren, Fisher Jennifer O
Abstract excerpt
Existing programs which aim to prevent and treat childhood obesity often do not take into account individual variation and the underlying mechanisms that impact child eating behavior. Individual differences in children's appetitive traits have been shown to appear as early as during infancy and become more pronounced as children grow older and become more exposed to the obesogenic food environment. Differences in...
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