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Physical Activity Across the Curriculum (PAAC): A Randomized Controlled Trial to Promote Physical Activity and Diminish Overweight and Obesity in Elementary School Children

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Physical Activity: Health Outcomes and Importance for Public Health Policy

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Aerobic Fitness and Mode of Travel to School in English Schoolchildren

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Neighborhood Racial Isolation, Disorder and Obesity

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The Association Between Community Physical Activity Settings and Youth Physical Activity, Obesity and Body Mass Index

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Changes in State-Specific Childhood Obesity and Overweight Prevalence in the United States From 2003 to 2007

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Non-vigorous physical activity and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies

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The Medical Care Costs of Obesity: An Instrumental Variables Approach

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Submitted on Wed, 07/26/2017 - 16:38 by Margaux Mennesson

How to Grow Responsible Road Users

In the Netherlands, approximately 50 percent of primary school children ride their bikes to school, and even more ride their bikes to secondary school.1 What’s more, Dutch cyclists are about 30 times less likely to get injured cycling than Americans. This begs the question: how do they achieve such high levels of ridership and low rates of injury?

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Submitted on Wed, 06/28/2017 - 10:44 by margo pedroso

Fits and Starts on Infrastructure and Health Care Legislation

Congress continues to struggle with finding consensus on major legislation, and also still has a lot of work ahead in coming months to settle federal government spending levels for 2018.

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