Narratives of urban female adolescents in South Africa: dietary and physical activity practices in an obesogenic environment
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2014;27(3) S Afr J Clin Nutr Sedibe MH,1,2 MSc, Senior Lecturer; Feeley AB,1 PhD, Honorary Research Fellow; Voorend C,3 MSc, Postgraduate Student Griffiths PL,1,4 PhD, Reader; Doak CM,3 PhD, Lecturer; Norris SA,1 PhD, Associate Professor 1MRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2Faculty of Health Sciences, Discipline of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus) 3Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4Centre for Global Health and Human Development, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, UK Correspondence to: Heather Sedibe, e-mail: [email protected]
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