Toddlers in US join elders in obese ranks
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The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the playpen: More than 10 percent of US children 2 to 5 are overweight, the American Heart Association reported yesterday.
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More than 10 per cent of US children ages two to five are plagued with obesity,. The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the playpen: more than 10 per cent of US children ages two to five are overweight.
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NEW YORK  - Giving parents the skills to cope effectively with their young children's weight problems can make it easier for these kids to slim down, a study from Australia shows.
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NEW YORK  - Obese children and teens lost   weight, made new friends and felt more confident after   participating in a community-based program that consisted of   individual counseling, group physical activities and parental   group sessions, UK researchers report.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDayNews) -- Rates of overweight among young children in low-income U.S. families increased between 1989 and 2000, says a study in the December issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
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NEW YORK  - Children's tendency to become overweight might have something to do with how their mothers urge them to eat, a new study hints.
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Parents in Scotland are urged to live healthier lifestyles in a bid to address childhood obesity.
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The children of overweight mothers  are 15 times more likely to be obese by age 6 than children of  lean mothers, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Physically active preschoolers are on to a good thing, but exercise alone won't keep obesity at bay as they get older, British researchers report.
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TUEDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Lifestyles with too little movement, too much TV exposure and way too much junk food are pushing U.S. children toward a life of overweight and obesity, a collection of new studies finds.
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The longer an immigrant lives in the US the more likely they are to be obese, according to a study in the December 15 issue of JAMA.
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Older American teenagers living in poverty have grown fatter at a higher rate than their peers, according to research that seems to underscore the unequal burden of obesity on the nation&#039;s poor.
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A new study found that obesity is relatively rare in the foreign-born until they have lived in the United States - the land of remote controls and double cheeseburgers - for more than 10 years.
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Worldwide, it is estimated that more than 22 million children under five years old are obese or overweight, and more than 17 million of them are in developing countries.
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The longer an immigrant lives in the US the more likely they are to be obese. Chicago, IL - Journal of the American Medical Association - Since the 1980s, the US population has become more obese, according
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Pudgy toddlers face a good chance of becoming overweight 12-year-olds, according to government research that shoots down the notion that kids just naturally outgrow early chubbiness.
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Obese children as young as 7 already have the beginnings of artery disease, Italian and U.S. researchers reported on Monday.