Obesity Among US Kids Starts by Kindergarten

Among US children, obesity is largely established by kindergarten, a study said, adding that nearly half of those obese at 14 already had the problem at age five. The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine also showed that over 14 percent of children enter kindergarten overweight and are four times more likely than normal weight children to become obese by the eighth grade. "Although trends in the prevalence of obesity are well documented, ...