Summary Box: Obesity Epidemic Reaches Tots
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BABY FAT: More than 10 percent of US children ages 2 to 5 are overweight - a figure 7 percent higher than in 1994, the American Heart Association (news - web sites) reports.
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World Heart Day is focusing on life-threatening risks of obesity in children. The World Health Organization and World Heart Federation warn, overweight children are three-to-five times more likely to suffer
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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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SUNDAY, Jan. 2  -- The American Heart Association's warning last week that more children than ever are heading toward heart trouble is primarily due to the nation's obesity epidemic.
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Britain faces &#39;losing a generation&#39; of children to obesity-related disease, the Duchess of York has warned. Speaking as guest editor of BBC Radio 4&#39;s flagship Today programme, Sarah Ferguson called on the government to take action and tackle the problem.
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A wide-ranging effort involving parents, schools, communities and government is needed to turn the tide of childhood obesity, the Institute of Medicine said Thursday.
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Britain is facing an &#39;obesity time bomb&#39; with only three percent of 11-year-old children meeting the national target of an hour of physical exercise a day, according to a study released on Thursday.
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Parents in Scotland are urged to live healthier lifestyles in a bid to address childhood obesity.
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Rates of obesity and diabetes are rising across England, government data reveals.
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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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BABY FAT: More than 10 percent of U.S. children ages 2 to 5 are overweight &#151; a figure up from 7 percent in 1994, the American Heart Association reports.
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Babies who are born heavy and grow  fast have a 150 percent chance of being overweight or obese by  the time they are seven years old, a survey of more than 8,000  children in Hong Kong has shown.
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Obese children as young as 7 already have the beginnings of artery disease, Italian and US researchers reported on Monday. They found signs that the carotid arteries of 100 obese children
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID    WASHINGTON  -- A wide-ranging effort involving parents, schools, communities and government is needed to turn the tide of childhood obesity, the Institute of Medicine said Thursday...
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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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Researchers surveyed parents of 277 children and found only a quarter of them recognised when their offspring were overweight. Where children were obese, a third of mothers and 57% of fathers thought they
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MONDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- More and more Americans are sliding into obesity, a clear signal that this national health problem is getting worse.