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Television viewing as a cause of increasing obesity among children in the United States, 1986-1990 -
SL Gortmaker, A Must, AM Sobol, K Peterson, GA … - Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 1996 - Am Med Assoc
... BACKGROUND AND METHODS: The prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents
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Do we fatten our children at the television set? Obesity and television viewing in children and … -
WH Dietz, SL Gortmaker - Pediatrics, 1985 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... Do we fatten our children at the television set? Obesity and television viewing
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Health Consequences of Obesity in Youth: Childhood Predictors of Adult Disease -
WH Dietz - Pediatrics, 1998 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... of inappropriate expectations of obese children whose growth ... on the persistence,
morbidity, and mortality of obesity. ... same studies might also help clarify the ...

Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health
T Lobstein, L Baur, R Uauy - Obesity Reviews, 2004 - Blackwell Synergy
... they can be given knowledge and skills to help understand the context of their choices,
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Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey -
TJ Cole, MC Bellizzi, KM Flegal, WH Dietz - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 2000 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... more internationally based than current alternatives, should help to provide
internationally comparable prevalence rates of overweight and obesity in children. ...

Reducing Children's Television Viewing to Prevent Obesity A Randomized Controlled Trial -
TN Robinson - JAMA, 1999 - Am Med Assoc
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Preventing childhood obesity by reducing consumption of carbonated drinks: cluster randomised … -
J James, P Thomas, D Cavan, D Kerr - BMJ, 2004 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... programmes that promote physical activity, modification of dietary intake, and
reduction of sedentary behaviours may help reduce obesity in children, few have ...

… Factors for Sleep-disordered Breathing in Children Associations with Obesity, Race, and Respiratory … -
S REDLINE, PV TISHLER, M SCHLUCHTER, J AYLOR, K … - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 1999 - Am Thoracic Soc
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Influence of diet, physical activity and parents? obesity on children?s adiposity: a four-year … -
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... Influence of diet, physical activity and parents' obesity on children's adiposity:
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