Disabled Children Have A High Rate Of Obesity

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Disabled Children Have A High Rate Of Obesity

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Disabled children are at great risk of developing obesity. In the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International, Thomas Reinehr and his colleagues from Witten/Herdecke University desc

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