Factors that contribute to the childhood obesity epidemic
Syracuse University professor Syracuse University professor Amy Ellen Schwartz, PhD Amy Ellen Schwartz, PhD , examines factors that may influence America's obesity epidemic in schoolchildren. She has…
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