Augsburg: Weight issues in children starting school
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 09:43
in Psychology & Sociology
Immigrant children have a greater risk of suffering from overweight and obesity. This is the result of a study from Augsburg with 2306 children examined on starting school. Elisabeth Weber and her coauthors present the results in the current issue of Deutsches Aerzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztbl Int 2008; 105 [51-52]: 883-889). The doctors recorded not only the age, sex, weight, and height of the children, but also their mother tongue. Their parents had to answer a questionnaire covering sporting activity, amount of television watched, and eating behaviour...