Head Start Participation and Childhood Obesity
Preprint
- 1 January 2006
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Childhood obesity is a significant public health problem that also has economic consequences. Medical research suggests that nutritional interventions at a youKeywords
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