Anti-obesity program for low-income kids shows promise

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - 10:10 in Health & Medicine

An approach that attempted to prevent childhood obesity in African-American girls produced beneficial changes in cholesterol, diabetes risk and depressive symptoms but had little effect on youths' weight, in a trial conducted by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital...

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