Sentences with phrase «old obese children»

The percentage of 6 to 11 year old obese children in the U.S. has increased from 7 % in 1980 to in excess of 40 % in 2008.

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Saint Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (c. 270 - 343) was a real person who is now mythologized into Santa Claus, an obese old man who miraculously keeps track of the moral character of children, travels around the Earth on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, visits millions of houses in one night without opening any door or window, and leaves presents for millions of children.

Diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke and non-insulin dependent diabetes are more likely to develop in older children and adults who are obese.

Over the 10 - year study, the children of older moms were more likely to be obese or die.

«Not only is it choking hazard, children who are fed rice cereal before 4 months old are more likely to be obese,» she notes.

To figure this out, I invented an eight - year old boy, Jimmy, with the average height of 50 inches and average weight of 55 pounds (I got these figures from weight charts issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; given that 40 % of Texas children are obese, Jimmy is lucky I allowed him to weigh in as an «average» child.)

Professor Russell Viner of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has claimed that «We are entering a state of emergency» when it comes to childhood obesity, citing statistics which show that 22 % of four and five - year olds are now overweight or obese, which rises to 34 % for ten and eleven - year olds!

A total of 23 % of adults are obese (with a body mass index (BMI) of over 30 61.3 % are either overweight or obese (with a BMI of over 25) For children, 23.1 % of 4 - 5 year olds are overweight or obese and 33.3 % of 10 - 11 year olds.

Bartoshuk also found a link between tonsillectomies, which were a common treatment for ear infections until the late 1980s, and obesity: six - to 11 - year - olds who had their tonsils removed were 40 percent more likely to be obese as children than other kids were.

Researchers examined the data of 314 overweight and obese Latino children who were between 8 and 15 years old when they enrolled in the National Institutes of Health - funded Study of Latino Adolescents at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (SOLAR) study, a 12 - year undertaking.

Twenty percent of African American children aged 2 to 19 years old are obese compared to 15 percent of white children.

Results showed that the highest increase in obesity occurs between 2 and 5 years old and as many as half of all Hispanic children are obese or overweight.

The study, which included 8,550 4 - year - olds from around the United States, found that children who ate dinner with their families more than five times a week, slept for at least 10.5 hours a night, and watched less two hours or less of TV a day were 40 % less likely to be obese than children who did none of those things.

A study last year found that obese children and teens have as much plaque in their arteries as a 45 - year - old adult, setting them up for heart disease and other serious health conditions much earlier than their parents.

Disappointing new research finds that starting in first grade — we're talking about 6 - year - olds — obese children are teased and bullied more often than kids of normal weight.

Finally, the game will feature mature content, such as receiving fully - clothed sexual acts from sentient plastic dolls, senselessly murdering obese Midwestern tourists for yelling obscenities at you, and partial nudity which will undoubtedly be repeatedly photographed and uploaded to Rockstar's Social Club by twelve - year - old children obsessing over an animated nipple, or worse, a seventy - year - old altruist's kibbles and bits.

It's a story about an obese black 16 - year - old Claireece «Precious» Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), who is pregnant with second child which came from her father who molested her.

Overweight five ‑ year - olds are four times as likely to become obese later in life, compared with children who are a healthy weight at this age.

Linda Bailey, Consultant Lead for the Child Measurement Programme said: «The number of children that are obese at the age of four to five years old has been going in the wrong direction over the past two years.

Statistics by the Child Measurement Programme revealed a rise in the number of obese four to five - year - olds over the last two years.

One out of every three children is now overweight or obese, which increases their risk of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer as they get older.

According to an article in the Ottawa Citizen a judge will rule, in part, on whether the 38 - year - old father is too obese to have custody of his children.

Among 3 - and 4 - year - old children enrolled in the Vermont WIC Program, we found greater TV viewing in those whose mothers had either depressive symptoms or obesity and the greatest TV viewing in children whose mothers were both depressed and obese.

Obesity is now nearly as prevalent among preschool children3 — 5 as among older children, and those who are overweight or obese at school entry typically remain so during the primary school years.6 Given that the development of obesity reflects both nutritional and physical activity behaviors and that during the preschool years these behaviors occur largely within the family unit, it is timely to scrutinize the roles of parents and parenting in the preschool years.

Results: Risk of non-response (≤ 5 % reduction of BMI - SDS or dropout) was elevated in older children, cases with obese sibling (s), maternal depression, and avoidant attachment attitude.

South Australian data indicates that a significantly greater proportion of four year old Aboriginal children were overweight or obese in 2009 compared with their non-Aboriginal peers (27.9 % and 18.3 % respectively)[8].