Word: overweighted
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...concerned that your child's baby fat has ballooned into a more serious problem, join the club. About 18% of American children aged 6 to 19 are now overweight, and childhood obesity rates are rising around the world. But what does early overweight mean for youngsters in adulthood: will overweight kids necessarily become overweight - and unhealthy - grown-ups? Epidemiologist David Freedman from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity studies that question. Though the science has been less than conclusive about the precise health risk factors obese children will face...
...overweight and obese children more likely to become obese - and sick - as adults...
...depends somewhat on the definition of childhood overweight and obesity, and it also depends on the age of the child. For example, an overweight or obese adolescent is much more likely to become an obese adult than is an overweight one-year-old. But even down to the youngest ages that I've worked with, age five, overweight five-year-olds maybe have a tenfold increased risk of becoming obese adults compared to relatively thin five-year-olds...
...lipids, blood pressure, weight and height, skin-fold thicknesses, smoking, alcohol consumption - anything we thought might be related to heart disease in adulthood. Of those children, the ones who had a body mass index (or BMI, a ratio of weight to height that's commonly used to define overweight) in the 95th percentile or higher when compared to a CDC reference population - as 18% of American children now have - about two-thirds grew up to be very obese as adults, with a BMI of 35 or higher...
Television viewing was also shown to be a risk factor in overweight children...