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Monday, February 22, 2010

Don't Ignore Overweight in Babies: They Can Grow up to be Obese Teens

Children who become obese teenagers are usually overweight by the time they are two years old, according to a new study in the journal Clinical Pediatrics.
  • Dr. John Harrington of Eastern Virginia Medical School studied data on more than 100 obese children and teenagers.
  • Dr. Harrington discovered that 90 percent of his subjects had been overweight by the time they were five years old.
  • The researcher said that he believes that age two is a "tipping point" age for being overweight, although most of the children in the study began gaining weight as early as three months.
Dr. Harrington said that his study should be a wake-up call for pediatricians to address inappropriate weight gain in early infancy during well child visits.

Labels: parenting, infant, obese teens

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