Nearly half of obese 8th graders were overweight in preschool

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 18:20 in Psychology & Sociology

A new U.S. study finds that much of a child's "weight fate" is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth grade were already overweight when they started kindergarten.

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