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Do Overweight Kids Become Obese Adults?

  • March 11, 2005

Considering the rising rates of obesity in this country, it's no surprise when those bad eating habits began. According to a study of 600 kids I posted late last month, about 80 percent of them became obese before age 6! But what about those kids who haven't faced that challenge yet? Researchers have found children and young teens who aren't overweight but in the higher range of normal weight are much more likely than leaner kids to become obese adults. Scientists studied some 300 Boston...