Trends in technological advance: Implications for sedentary behaviour and obesity in screenagers

Education and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 35-38

  Griffiths, Mark D ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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