I see lawsuits by McDonalds on parents now. Maybe the New York mayor can outlaw parents instead of big cokes?????


Researchers say much of a child's "weight fate" is set by age 5, and they believe there may be a window of opportunity to prevent obesity.


Those efforts to fight obesity in schools? Think younger. A new study finds that much of a child's "weight fate" is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth grade were already overweight when they started kindergarten.

The prevalence of weight problems has long been known — about a third of U.S. kids are overweight or obese. But surprisingly little is known about which kids will develop obesity, and at what age.

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WHO BECAME OBESE: Between ages 5 and 14, nearly 12 percent of children developed obesity — 10 percent of girls and nearly 14 percent of boys.

Nearly half of kids who started kindergarten overweight became obese teens. Overweight 5-year-olds were four times as likely as normal-weight children to become obese (32 percent versus 8 percent).

Full article - http://news.msn.com/us/study-weight-...y-kindergarten