UK Becoming Overweight And Obese At Younger Ages

Saturday, May 23, 2015 - 23:40 in Health & Medicine

Children born since the 1980s are two to three times more likely than older generations to be overweight or obese by the age of 10, according to new research published in PLOS Medicine. The study, conducted by researchers from CLOSER, a consortium of UK longitudinal studies, characterized population shifts in body mass index (BMI) using data from more than 56,000 people born in Britain from 1946 to 2001. read more

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