OBESITY IN CHILDREN
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by ratha78
Obesity in Children and AdolescentsObesity is defined as an excessive accumulation of body fat. Obesity is present when total body weight is more than 25 percent fat in boys and more than 32 percent fat in girls (Lohman, 1987). Although childhood obesity is often defined as a weight-for-height in excess of 120 percent of the [...]
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