Pediatric fitness; secular trends and geographic variability.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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9783805581776

Pediatric fitness; secular trends and geographic variability.

Ed. by Grant R. Tomkinson and Timothy S. Olds.

S. Karger, AG

2007

245 pages

$180.00

Hardcover

Medicine and sport science; v.50

RJ133

Tomkinson and Olds (Centre for Applied Anthropometry and Nutritional Physiology Research Centre, U. of South Australia) compile 13 studies that discuss the fitness of children and adolescents over five decades and in different parts of the world. Contributors from all over the world ...

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