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Science 12 June 1959:
Vol. 129. no. 3363, pp. 1615 - 1616
DOI: 10.1126/science.129.3363.1615
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Fat Changes during Adolescence

STANLEY M. GARN 1 and JOAN A. HASKELL 1

1 Physical Growth Department, Fels Research Institute, Yellow Springs, Ohio

Lower thoracic fat, as measured on serial chest plates of 259 children in Ohio, increased in girls, between ages 6.5 and 14.5 years and, in boys, between ages 6.5 and 11.5 years. No evidence for a marked loss of "baby" fat in adolescence or for "waves" of fattening around the time of puberty was found.


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