Influence of Childhood and Adolescent Fat Development on Fat Mass Accrual During Emerging Adulthood: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study.
Erin N Barbour-TuckMarta ErlandsonNazeem MuhajarineHeather J A FouldsAdam Baxter-JonesPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2018)
These results underscore the importance of maintaining a lower TBF and TrF during childhood and adolescence, and a higher level of PA in order to mitigate TBF and TrF accrual and prevent the transition from having healthy weight to having OWO during EA.