Inuit children are heavier but just as tall as US counterparts
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 13:14
in Psychology & Sociology
A health survey of Inuit children in northern Canada offers good news and bad. The good is that preschoolers are just as tall as their US counterparts. The bad is that they are heavier. In fact, 51 percent of 3-to-5-year-olds measured were overweight, a figure that surpasses preschoolers in Canada, Greenland and the US.