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Kindergarten Weight Strong Indicator of Childhood Obesity
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:25
- Over 12 percent of children enter kindergarten obese
- Over 14 percent of children enter kindergarten overweight and are four times more likely than normal weight children to become obese by the eighth grade
- Children who were large at birth and are overweight by kindergarten are at the highest risk of becoming obese before age 14
Source: Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health
Source URL: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/01/kindergarten_weight_ch...
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