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Education-based obesity-prevention strategies are viewed as the most useful and feasible to implement.
Practitioners should consider implementing education-based strategies for obesity prevention.
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Education-based obesity-prevention strategies (e.g., mass-media promotion of healthy foods and promotion of healthy physical activity habits through schools) are viewed as the most useful and the most feasible to implement.
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Environmental and Societal Factors Affect Food Choice and Physical Activity: Rationale, Influences, and Leverage Points
Sarah L. Booth et al. · Nutrition Reviews · 2009
DOI 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2001.tb06983.x
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