According to major health organizations, childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. When I’ve brought up childhood weight or obesity in the past, often I’m attacked by parents or other individuals who think I shouldn’t have brought the topic up at all. As I’ve noted before, weight, and child weight in particular is a [...]
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New research shows that obese children have some distinct structural abnormalities of the brain and that they have lower cognitive function than kids who are not clinically obese. The study, published in Pediatrics and supported by the National Institutes of Health, looked specifically at children with metabolic syndrome (MetS) . MetS stands for a group [...]
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