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Study: Rural Folk Have Higher Risk For Obesity

Date Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Attribution By Lisa Hare
Website http://www.yankton.net/articles/2009/01/27/community/doc497ea61513edb203676053.t...
Resource Type News |
Topic Transportation | Childhood obesity | Bicycle | Pedestrian | Public Health | Rural Populations | Safety (traffic and crime) |
Geography Rural |

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