Adipose tissue - the gift child abusing parents give their kids that keeps on giving.
Dramatic shifts in the prevalence of overweight and obesity occur between adolescence and young adulthood, a prospective cohort study of Australian youths showed.Stop nutritional child abuse.
One in every five teens ages 14 to 17 was classified as overweight. That rate increased to one in every three by age 24, George Patton, MD, of Royal Children's Hospital in Victoria, Australia, and colleagues reported online in the Journal of Adolescent Health...
Weight status during adolescence was predictive of weight during young adulthood. Few teens who were obese or persistently overweight achieved a normal weight by age 24.
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