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Success of 'Shape Up Somerville' childhood obesity intervention to be presented

Christina Economos, Ph.D, principal investigator of "Shape Up Somerville: Eat Smart. Play Hard", a large-scale community intervention to curb childhood obesity, will present her research at the second annual Friedman School Symposium at Tufts, Oct. 29-31 in Boston."Shape Up Somerville" was a three-year-long obesity prevention intervention targeted at first through third graders in the culturally diverse Boston suburb of Somerville, Mass.

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