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Convenience Stores Could Be Causing Childhood Obesity

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Corner convenience stores may be contributing to the pediatric obesity epidemic.

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" A quick stop in a convenience store may speed up weight gaining kids according to a study in the journal pediatrics. With a childhood obesity epidemic continuing to grow researchers at Temple University turned to low income neighborhoods in Philadelphia to learn what factors lead to weight gaining kids. These surveyed more than 800 children outside urban convenience stores before and after school and found most kids by high calorie low nutrition food like chips and candy. They say future obesity prevention efforts should focus on corner convenience stores and their proximity to schools."

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