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Are children becoming obese earlier?

Posted on June 8, 2015April 12, 2022 by Christine Garrington

Are children becoming obese at a younger age compared with the generations before them? New evidence from a research team at CLOSER, making use of the UK’s Cohort Studies, indicates they are. One of the team, Professor Rebecca Hardy from UCL, spoke to Child of our Time about the research.

How has the age-related process of overweight or obesity development changed over time? Coordinated analyses of individual participant data from five United Kingdom birth cohorts, is research by William Johnson,  Leah Li,  Rebecca Hardy and Diana Kuh, and is published in PLOS Medicine.

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