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News Feature: One step at a time

Nature Medicine volume 11, pages 363–364 (2005)Cite this article

Turning the tide on the obesity epidemic is going to require a myriad lifestyle changes—and a few communities are rising to the challenge. Kendall Powell cruises the neighborhood.

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