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Jul 24, 2012
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To understand childhood obesity, researchers look to inactive, fat rats
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American Physiological Society
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United States
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Preventive Medicine
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Childhood obesity has nearly tripled in the past three decades, and by 2009, 17 percent of those 2-19 years of age were classified as obese. If actions against childhood obesity do not take place it is likely that today’s children could be the first generation in over a century to experience a decline in life expectancy due to the epidemic of childhood......> Full story
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