New data suggest that we may have turned an important corner in the childhood obesity epidemic.
While rates of obesity and extreme obesity in preschoolers rose from 1998 to 2003, they began to plateau soon thereafter. And childhood obesity rates decreased slightly in 2010.
«We are very encouraged by this data,» says study researcher Heidi M. Blanck, PhD, of the CDC in Atlanta. «It’s pretty exciting and a nice turning of the tide. But we have to stay vigilant or it will go in the other direction.»
Researchers looked at data on 27.5 million children aged 2 to 4 from 1998 to 2010...
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