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  1. The measurement of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour (SB) is fundamental to health related research, policy, and practice but there are well known challenges to these measurements. Within the acad...

    Authors: Paul Kelly, Claire Fitzsimons and Graham Baker
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:32
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:66

  2. Despite increased use of dietary pattern methods in nutritional epidemiology, there have been few direct comparisons of methods. Older adults are a particularly understudied population in the dietary pattern l...

    Authors: Maree G. Thorpe, Catherine M. Milte, David Crawford and Sarah A. McNaughton
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:30
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  3. To combat the disproportionately higher risk of childhood obesity in Latino preschool-aged children, multilevel interventions targeting physical (in) activity are needed. These require the identification of en...

    Authors: Ester Cerin, Tom Baranowski, Anthony Barnett, Nancy Butte, Sheryl Hughes, Rebecca E. Lee, Jason A. Mendoza, Debbe Thompson and Teresia Margareta O’Connor
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:29
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  4. Investigating associations between socio-ecological variables and context-specific sitting time in adults can support the development of future interventions. The purpose of the present study was to examine th...

    Authors: Cedric Busschaert, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Greet Cardon and Katrien De Cocker
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:28
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  5. Supermarket Healthy Eating for Life (SHELf) was a randomized controlled trial that operationalized a socioecological approach to population-level dietary behaviour change in a real-world supermarket setting. S...

    Authors: Dana Lee Olstad, Kylie Ball, Gavin Abbott, Sarah A. McNaughton, Ha N. D. Le, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Christina Pollard and David A. Crawford
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:27
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  6. Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a prevalent risk condition associated with a higher risk of chronic conditions, including diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Physical activity and non-movement behaviours (NMB),...

    Authors: Deepa P. Rao, Heather Orpana and Daniel Krewski
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:26
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  7. Physical activity has been associated with many benefits throughout the life course. As levels of physical activity appear to be insufficient in large populations, the development of effective interventions to...

    Authors: Esther M. F. van Sluijs and Susi Kriemler
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:25
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  8. The editors of International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 12 (2015).

    Authors: Russell Jago
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:24
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  9. Evidence for the effect of dietary energy on BMI z-scores in young children is limited. We aim to investigate cross-sectional and longitudinal effects of daily energy intake (EI) on BMI z-scores of European bo...

    Authors: Antje Hebestreit, Gianvincenzo Barba, Stefaan De Henauw, Gabriele Eiben, Charalampos Hadjigeorgiou, Éva Kovács, Vittorio Krogh, Luis A. Moreno, Valeria Pala, Toomas Veidebaum, Maike Wolters and Claudia Börnhorst
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:23
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  10. Numerous cross-sectional studies have investigated the premise that the perception of crime will cause residents to constrain their walking; however the findings to date are inconclusive. In contrast, few long...

    Authors: Sarah Foster, Paula Hooper, Matthew Knuiman, Hayley Christian, Fiona Bull and Billie Giles-Corti
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:22
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  11. Recent increases in obesity prevalence have led to research into the neighbourhood food environment. Research suggests that proximity and density of food outlets around the home is associated with childhood ob...

    Authors: Stephanie Howard Wilsher, Flo Harrison, Fred Yamoah, Andrew Fearne and Andy Jones
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:21
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  12. Identifying the determinants of child’s liking for different foods may help to prevent future choices of unhealthy food.

    Authors: Wen Lun Yuan, Natalie Rigal, Sandrine Monnery-Patris, Claire Chabanet, Anne Forhan, Marie-Aline Charles and Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:20
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  13. Many overweight people find it difficult to maintain weight loss after attending a weight reduction programme. Self-weighing and telephone support are known to be useful methods for self-monitoring for weight ...

    Authors: Manbinder S. Sidhu, Amanda Daley and Kate Jolly
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:19
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  14. There is growing interest in designing cities that support not only walking, but also cycling. Bike Score® is a metric capturing environmental characteristics associated with cycling that is now available for ...

    Authors: Meghan Winters, Kay Teschke, Michael Brauer and Daniel Fuller
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:18
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  15. Although previous research found a positive association between sensitivity to reward (SR) and adolescents’ unhealthy snacking and drinking behavior, mechanisms explaining these associations remain to be explo...

    Authors: Nathalie De Cock, Wendy Van Lippevelde, Lien Goossens, Bart De Clercq, Jolien Vangeel, Carl Lachat, Kathleen Beullens, Lieven Huybregts, Leentje Vervoort, Steven Eggermont, Lea Maes, Caroline Braet, Benedicte Deforche, Patrick Kolsteren and John Van Camp
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:17
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  16. Previous studies have focused on the acute effects of food advertisements on the caloric intake of children; however, the long-term effects of this food cue reactivity on weight gain have not been examined. Th...

    Authors: Frans Folkvord, Doeschka J. Anschütz and Moniek Buijzen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:16
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  17. Low and high birth weight and accelerated postnatal weight gain are associated with an increased risk of obesity. Perinatal effects on energy intake and eating behavior have been proposed as underlying mechani...

    Authors: Arend W. van Deutekom, Mai J. M. Chinapaw, Tanja G. M. Vrijkotte and Reinoud J. B. J. Gemke
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:15
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  18. Older adults are the most inactive age group and self-reporting of activities may be complicated by age-related reductions in structured activities and misclassification or recall biases. We investigate the va...

    Authors: Barbara J. Jefferis, Claudio Sartini, Sarah Ash, Lucy T. Lennon, S. Goya Wannamethee and Peter H. Whincup
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:14
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  19. This study aimed to determine whether a home-based 6-month lifestyle intervention program complemented by motivational interviewing could improve diet and physical activity behaviours in 50–69 year olds with o...

    Authors: Krysten Blackford, Jonine Jancey, Andy H. Lee, Anthony James, Peter Howat and Tracy Waddell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:13
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  20. It has been argued that transition points in life, such as the approach towards, and early years of retirement present key opportunities for interventions to improve the health of the population. Research has ...

    Authors: S. Baxter, M. Johnson, N. Payne, H. Buckley-Woods, L. Blank, E. Hock, A. Daley, A. Taylor, T. Pavey, G. Mountain and E. Goyder
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  21. The effectiveness of initiatives to increase healthy food access may be affected by where people decide to shop. People with poor neighborhood access to large grocery stores develop shopping patterns that requ...

    Authors: Katherine Isselmann DiSantis, Amy Hillier, Rio Holaday and Shiriki Kumanyika
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:11
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  22. Pregnancy is characterised by large weight gain over a short period, and often a notable change in mode of transportation. This makes pregnancy suitable for examining the plausible, but in the scientific liter...

    Authors: Marianne Skreden, Nina C. Øverby, Linda R. Sagedal, Ingvild Vistad, Monica K. Torstveit, Hilde Lohne-Seiler and Elling Bere
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:10
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  23. There is growing evidence for a relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption and all-cause mortality. Few studies, however, specifically explored consuming raw versus cooked vegetables in relation to h...

    Authors: Binh Nguyen, Adrian Bauman, Joanne Gale, Emily Banks, Leonard Kritharides and Ding Ding
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:9
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  24. There is increasing evidence for the effectiveness of parental support programmes to promote healthy behaviours and prevent obesity in children, but only few studies have been conducted among groups with low s...

    Authors: Gisela Nyberg, Åsa Norman, Elinor Sundblom, Zangin Zeebari and Liselotte Schäfer Elinder
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:4
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  25. Multimorbidity has become one of the main challenges in the recent years for patients, health care providers and the health care systems globally. However, literature describing the burden of multimorbidity in...

    Authors: Nafeesa N. Dhalwani, Gary O’Donovan, Francesco Zaccardi, Mark Hamer, Thomas Yates, Melanie Davies and Kamlesh Khunti
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:8
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  26. TXT2BFiT was one of the first few innovative mHealth programs designed for young adults (18–35 years) with demonstrated efficacy in weight management. However, research is lacking to understand intervention ef...

    Authors: Stephanie R. Partridge, Margaret Allman-Farinelli, Kevin McGeechan, Kate Balestracci, Annette T.Y. Wong, Lana Hebden, Mark F. Harris, Adrian Bauman and Philayrath Phongsavan
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:7
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  27. Knowledge about the relationships between micro-scale environmental factors and older adults’ walking for transport is limited and inconsistent. This is probably due to methodological limitations, such as abse...

    Authors: Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Peter Clarys, Jack Nasar, Jo Salmon, Liesbet Goubert and Benedicte Deforche
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:6
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  28. Little is known about the exclusive adoption of healthy weight control behaviors in the absence of unhealthy weight control behaviors among adolescents. The current study aimed to determine (i) the prevalence ...

    Authors: Amy M. Lampard, Richard F. Maclehose, Marla E. Eisenberg, Nicole I. Larson, Kirsten K. Davison and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:5
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  29. Lunches that parents pack for their young children to eat at school or the Early Care and Education (ECE) center fall short of recommended standards. Lunch is in the Bag is a multi-level behavioral nutrition inte...

    Authors: Cindy Roberts-Gray, Margaret E. Briley, Nalini Ranjit, Courtney E. Byrd-Williams, Sara J. Sweitzer, Shreela V. Sharma, Maria Romo Palafox and Deanna M. Hoelscher
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:3
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  30. Objectively measured physical activity between older individuals and between populations has been poorly described. We aimed to describe and compare the variation in accelerometry data in older UK (EPIC-Norfol...

    Authors: K. Berkemeyer, K. Wijndaele, T. White, A. J. M. Cooper, R. Luben, K. Westgate, S. J. Griffin, K. T. Khaw, N. J. Wareham and S. Brage
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:2
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  31. In preschoolers, high levels of sedentary behaviour are associated with several adverse health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to report the effects of the ToyBox-intervention (a European 24-week cluste...

    Authors: Marieke De Craemer, Ellen De Decker, Maïté Verloigne, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Yannis Manios and Greet Cardon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016 13:1
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  32. The combination of economic and social costs associated with non-communicable diseases provide a compelling argument for developing strategies that can influence modifiable risk factors, such as discrete food ...

    Authors: Máirtín S. McDermott, Madalyn Oliver, Alexander Svenson, Thomas Simnadis, Eleanor J. Beck, Tim Coltman, Don Iverson, Peter Caputi and Rajeev Sharma
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:162
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. Active travel is associated with greater physical activity, but there is a dearth of research examining this relationship over time. We examined the longitudinal associations between change in time spent in ac...

    Authors: Louise Foley, Jenna Panter, Eva Heinen, Richard Prins and David Ogilvie
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:161
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  34. Food processing alters food from its natural state for safety, convenience, taste or palatability. Previous research suggests that industrially processed foods, and diets high in these products, tend to be les...

    Authors: Jean Adams and Martin White
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:160
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  35. Consumer-wearable activity trackers are electronic devices used for monitoring fitness- and other health-related metrics. The purpose of this systematic review was to summarize the evidence for validity and re...

    Authors: Kelly R. Evenson, Michelle M. Goto and Robert D. Furberg
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:159
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  36. Fruit and vegetable (FV) based intervention studies can be effective in increasing short term FV consumption. However, the longer term efficacy of such interventions is still unclear. The aim of the current st...

    Authors: Charlotte E Neville, Michelle C McKinley, Claire R Draffin, Nicola E Gallagher, Katherine M Appleton, Ian S Young, J David Edgar and Jayne V Woodside
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:158
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  37. Obesity is an increasingly prevalent condition among older adults, yet relatively little is known about how built environment variables may be associated with obesity in older age groups. This is particularly ...

    Authors: Abby C. King, Deborah Salvo, Jorge A. Banda, David K. Ahn, Thomas M. Gill, Michael Miller, Anne B. Newman, Roger A. Fielding, Carlos Siordia, Spencer Moore, Sara Folta, Bonnie Spring, Todd Manini and Marco Pahor
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:157
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  38. Television viewing is a highly prevalent sedentary behavior among older adults, yet the mortality risks associated with hours of daily viewing over many years and whether increasing or decreasing viewing time ...

    Authors: Sarah Kozey Keadle, Hannah Arem, Steven C. Moore, Joshua N. Sampson and Charles E. Matthews
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:156
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  39. Beliefs surrounding the usefulness of dietary restriction and physical activity as means of body shape and size modification is already present in children as young as 5-years-old, and these beliefs may increa...

    Authors: Rachel F. Rodgers, Eleanor H. Wertheim, Stephanie R. Damiano, Karen J. Gregg and Susan J. Paxton
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:155
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  40. Family meal frequency has been shown to be strongly associated with better dietary intake; however, associations with weight status have been mixed. Family meals-focused randomized controlled trials with weigh...

    Authors: Jayne A. Fulkerson, Sarah Friend, Colleen Flattum, Melissa Horning, Michelle Draxten, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Olga Gurvich, Mary Story, Ann Garwick and Martha Y. Kubik
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:154
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  41. Children’s fussy eating behavior has been related to both underweight and overweight in cross-sectional studies, but the direction of these associations and the relation with more detailed measures of body com...

    Authors: Lisanne M. de Barse, Henning Tiemeier, Elisabeth T. M. Leermakers, Trudy Voortman, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Lisa R. Edelson, Oscar H. Franco and Pauline W. Jansen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:153
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  42. High urbanicity and income are risk factors for cardiovascular-related chronic diseases in low- and middle-income countries, perhaps due to low physical activity (PA) in urban, high income areas. Few studies h...

    Authors: Samantha M. Attard, Annie-Green Howard, Amy H. Herring, Bing Zhang, Shufa Du, Allison E. Aiello, Barry M. Popkin and Penny Gordon-Larsen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:152
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  43. Colour coded front-of-pack nutrition labelling (‘traffic light labelling’) has been recommended for use in the UK since 2006. The voluntary scheme is used by all the major retailers and some manufacturers. It ...

    Authors: Peter Scarborough, Anne Matthews, Helen Eyles, Asha Kaur, Charo Hodgkins, Monique M Raats and Mike Rayner
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:151
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  44. Increasing active transport behavior (walking, cycling) throughout the life-course is a key element of physical activity promotion for health. There is, however, a need to better understand the correlates of s...

    Authors: Mehdi Menai, Hélène Charreire, Thierry Feuillet, Paul Salze, Christiane Weber, Christophe Enaux, Valentina A. Andreeva, Serge Hercberg, Julie-Anne Nazare, Camille Perchoux, Chantal Simon and Jean-Michel Oppert
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:150
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  45. Discretionary eating behaviour (“snacking”) is dependent on internal and external cues. Individual differences in the effects of these cues suggest that some people are more or less likely to snack in certain ...

    Authors: Benjamin Schüz, Natalie Schüz and Stuart G. Ferguson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:149
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  46. Sitting time questionnaires have largely been validated in small convenience samples. The validity of this multi-context sitting questionnaire against an accurate measure of sitting time is reported in a large...

    Authors: Bronwyn K Clark, Brigid M Lynch, Elisabeth AH Winkler, Paul A Gardiner, Genevieve N Healy, David W Dunstan and Neville Owen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:148
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  47. Behavioral shifts in eating, favoring the increased consumption of highly processed foods over healthier, home-cooked alternatives, have led to widespread health problems. This study reports on the effectivene...

    Authors: Maya Adam, Kelly C. Young-Wolff, Ellen Konar and Marilyn Winkleby
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:143
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  48. The aim of this harmonized meta-analysis was to examine the independent and combined effects of physical activity and BMI on the incidence of type 2 diabetes.

    Authors: Laura Cloostermans, Wanda Wendel-Vos, Gerda Doornbos, Bethany Howard, Cora Lynn Craig, Mika Kivimäki, Adam G. Tabak, Barbara J. Jefferis, Kimmo Ronkainen, Wendy J. Brown, Susan H. S. J. Picavet, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Jari Antero Laukkanen, Jussi Kauhanen and Wanda J. E. Bemelmans
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:147
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  50. The purpose of this systematic review was to determine the relationship between a wide range of physical environmental characteristics and different contexts of active transportation in 6- to 12-year-old child...

    Authors: Sara D’Haese, Griet Vanwolleghem, Erica Hinckson, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Benedicte Deforche, Delfien Van Dyck and Greet Cardon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015 12:145
    Content type: Review Published on:
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