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February 4, 2014

More News on Childhood Obesity

Occasionally my mother comments on my daughter’s weight, which strikes me as out of line since my daughter is only four years old. I don’t want to her to start having body image worries. Aside from the fact that both my daughter and her brother are on the thin side (note that my mother never comments on my son’s weight),  my mother might just (inadvertently) have a point.

For many obese adults, the die was cast by the time they were 5 years old. A major new study of more than 7,000 children has found that a third of children who were overweight in kindergarten were obese by eighth grade. And almost every child who was very obese remained that way.

Some obese or overweight kindergartners lost their excess weight, and some children of normal weight got fat over the years. But every year, the chances that a child would slide into or out of being overweight or obese diminished. By age 11, there were few additional changes: Those who were obese or overweight stayed that way, and those whose weight was normal did not become fat.

“The main message is that obesity is established very early in life, and that it basically tracks through adolescence to adulthood,” said Ruth Loos, a professor of preventive medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, who was not involved in the study.

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