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St. Jude program reduces weight gain in young African-American girls

A community-based weight control program designed by investigators now at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is the first such intervention to succeed for up to two years in reducing the prevalence of overweight children, according to a report presented at the American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, Fla.

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