Promoting healthy weight in primary school children through physical activity and nutrition education: a pragmatic evaluation of the CHANGE! randomised intervention study.

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Published in BMC Public Health on July 02, 2013

Authors

Stuart J Fairclough1, Allan F Hackett, Ian G Davies, Rebecca Gobbi, Kelly A Mackintosh, Genevieve L Warburton, Gareth Stratton, Esther M F van Sluijs, Lynne M Boddy

Author Affiliations

1: Physical Activity Exchange, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, 62, Great Crosshall Street, Liverpool, UK. S.J.Fairclough@ljmu.ac.uk

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