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The Obese Adolescent

Observations On Etiology Management Prevention

Oliver N. Massengale

University of Colorado Medical Center

Few patients can be as frustrating to the physician as the overweight teenager. Obesity is common among adolescents and can be as incapacitating to them as cancer or coronary disease is to older in dividuals. In addition to its influence on physical health, excess weight may ad versely affect social acceptance, school success, athletic participation and fam ily relationships. Here is one approach to this problem.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 4, No. 11, 649-654 (1965)
DOI: 10.1177/000992286500401107
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