Obesity affects about 12.5 million US children and teens, roughly 17 percent, after tripling during the 1980s and 1990s. The rise has slowed and may have levelled off, but the heaviest boys keep getting heavier, and Hispanic boys and non-Hispanic black girls are hit hardest.
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A third of 9-month-olds obese or at risk of obesity - study
Researchers who weighed 8,900 U.S. infants born in 2001 found about a third were obese or at risk of obesity at nine months, rising to 34.3 percent by age two. Hispanic and low-socioeconomic-status children faced higher risk; girls and Asian/Pacific Islanders lower.
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Childhood Obesity Linked to Cold Virus
Of 124 children tested, 19 carried antibodies to the cold virus AD-36 and 15 of those were obese; antibody-positive children weighed 50 pounds more than negative ones. The researchers caution the link may not run that way — obese children could simply catch the virus more easily.
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