Fact Based List:

Kindergarten Weight Strong Indicator of Childhood Obesity

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 13:25


  1. Over 12 percent of children enter kindergarten obese
  2. Over 14 percent of children enter kindergarten overweight and are four times more likely than normal weight children to become obese by the eighth grade
  3. Children who were large at birth and are overweight by kindergarten are at the highest risk of becoming obese before age 14


Source: Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health
Source URL: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/01/kindergarten_weight_ch...



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