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Research data from Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Biochemistry update understanding of life sciences

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 4th, 2010

Researchers detail in 'Asian children's obesogenic diets-time to change this part of the energy balance equation,' new data in life sciences. According to a study from Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, "Food intake and dietary behavior, along with physical activity, are key environmental determinants of both energy imbalance as well as achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Increasingly globalized, obesogenic diets and dietary behaviors have created a mainly urban Asian childhood obesity epidemic, which, coupled with persistent undernutrition, present a complex double burden of malnutrition."

"Some dietary patterns associated with Asian childhood overweight...

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