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Physical activity, undernutrition and child development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

J. M. Meeks Gardner  and
S. M. Grantham-McGregor
J. M. Meeks Gardner
Affiliation:
Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies
S. M. Grantham-McGregor
Affiliation:
Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies
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Symposium on ‘Nutrition and activity’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 241 - 248
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1994

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