Head Start linked to healthy changes in BMI
1. Overweight and obese preschool-aged children who entered the federally funded Head Start program had significantly greater decreases in body ...
Tag: childhood obesity
Majority of obese tenth-graders already obese by fifth grade
1. Sixty-five percent of studied fifth-graders who were obese in the fifth grade remained obese in the tenth grade. 2. ...
Family meal dynamics linked to childhood weight
1. Overweight and obese children were significantly more likely to eat meals quickly and to eat in a room other ...
Weight associated with bullying behavior in younger children
1. In a cross-sectional study of first graders, an elevated body mass index (BMI) was related to a slightly greater ...
Parental conceptions of weight are becoming increasingly inaccurate
1. Compared to parents surveyed more than 10 years earlier, parents surveyed between the years 2005-2010 were more likely to ...