Mobile apps for pediatric obesity prevention and treatment, healthy eating, and physical activity promotion: just fun and games?

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Published in Transl Behav Med on September 01, 2013

Authors

Danielle E Schoffman1, Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, Sonya J Jones, Sara Wilcox

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA.

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