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Inner-city convenience stores spur kids obesity.(Clinical Rounds)

Pediatric News, September, 2006 by Goldman, Erik

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OLD GREENWICH, CONN. -- A child growing up in New York City's East Harlem neighborhood has easy access to fast-food restaurants and "convenience" stores selling poor-quality processed foods, but her parents may have to walk 10 or 20 blocks to fund a supermarket that stocks fresh produce.

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Proximity and prevalence of these convenience stores, known as bodegas in Spanish, turn out to be an accurate predictor of body weight and waist-to-hip ratio in East Harlem children, according to Dr. Maida P. Galvez of the center for children's environmental health and disease prevention ...

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Health Care Industry

Inner-city convenience stores spur kids obesity.(Clinical Rounds)

Pediatric News, September, 2006 by Goldman, Erik

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