Built environment is strongest predictor of adolescent obesity

New research shows that the built environment, not social and economic environments, is a strong predictor of adolescents’ body mass index, or BMI, overweight and obesity status, and eating behaviors, according to a new study in Obesity, The Obesity Society’s flagship journal. This study provides the first quasi-experimental empirical evidence of these environments on adolescents’ BMI, over...

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