Novel and emerging approaches to combat adolescent obesity
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Novel and emerging approaches to combat adolescent obesity
Overweight and obesity continue to be health concerns facing today's adolescent population. Along with metabolic and physical problems associated with obesity, today's obese adolescents also face many psychological issues such as high rates of depression, anxiety, and social discrimination. Obesity is commonly recognized as having many causes, such as genetic, lifestyle and environmental. There...
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عنوان ژورنال: Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1179-318X
DOI: 10.2147/ahmt.s7579