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Physical activity, undernutrition and child development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

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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Type
Symposium on ‘Nutrition and activity’
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1994

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