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Community-Based Approaches to Reduce Pediatric Obesity

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Community-based approaches must be tailored to local needs and resources, engage key stakeholders, and become self-sustaining. Community-based approaches comprise the most cost effective interventions to address the public health aspects of pediatric obesity and T2DM.

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  1. Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

    Keith L. Perkins MD

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    Robert J. Ferry, Jr.

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Perkins, K.L., McNamee, D.M. (2011). Community-Based Approaches to Reduce Pediatric Obesity. In: Ferry, Jr., R. (eds) Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-256-8_6

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