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Peer reviewedFryer, Beth A.; And Others – Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 1972
Descriptors: Body Height, Body Weight, Family Income, Growth Patterns
Peer reviewedUrrusti, J.; And Others – Pediatrics, 1972
Descriptors: Body Weight, Clinical Diagnosis, Exceptional Child Research, Growth Patterns
Peer reviewedRoche, Alex F., Ed. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1979
The three articles in this collection discuss secular trends and changes in (1) human stature, weight, and maturation, (2) body proportions and composition, and (3) size and maturity. (CM)
Descriptors: Body Weight, Family Planning, Growth Patterns, Human Body
National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, Washington, DC. Food and Nutrition Board. – 1978
This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop designed to review the current state of knowledge on prenatal and early postnatal determinants of obesity, and to identify areas for further research. The workshop was sponsored by the Committee on Nutrition of the Mother and Preschool Child, Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Children, Conferences, Eating Habits
Huenemann, Ruth L.; And Others – 1974
Body size, composition, and conformation in a teen-age population, and associated factors were studied to obtain useful data for planning programs in public health nutrition. This book describes the purpose, methods, and findings of this four-year longitudinal and cross-sectional study conducted in Berkeley, California, during the years 1961 to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Body Weight, Cross Sectional Studies
Birch, Herbert G.; Gussow, Joan Dye – 1970
This book examines the relationships between poverty, disadvantage, and educational failure in a way considered to be more comprehensive and complex than is possible when such an examination is based solely on a concept of cultural disadvantage and defective experience. The mortality of infants and their mothers around birth, held to be both the…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Body Weight, Child Development, Compensatory Education
Edington, D.W.; Cunningham, Lee – 1975
This guide to biological awareness through guided self-discovery is based on 51 single focus statements concerning the human body. For each statement there are explanations of the underlying physiological principles and suggested activities and discussion ideas to encourage understanding of the statement in terms of the human body's functions,…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Biology, Blood Circulation, Body Height
