Obesity rates differ among racial/ethnic groups in kids as young as four

Monday, April 6, 2009 - 15:49 in Health & Medicine

Obesity is twice as common in young American Indian/Native Alaskan children as it is in white and Asian children, according to new research offering the first nationally representative analysis of obesity prevalence among preschool-aged kids in five major racial/ethnic groups.

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