After years of increases in the rates of childhood obesity, a new UC Davis study shows that the increase slowed from 2003 to 2008 among California school children.Pyrrhic victory.
While encouraged by the results, the authors expressed concern about a group of youngsters currently driving the increase in obesity: children under age 10.
"Children who were obese entering the fifth grade remained obese in subsequent years as well, despite improvements in school nutrition and fitness standards," said William Bommer, professor of cardiovascular medicine at UC Davis and senior author of the study. "And we suspect that this trend begins before kindergarten."
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Study Shows That The Increase In Obesity Among California School Children Has Slowed
But the kids are still getting fatter and fatter.
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