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Fat chance of obesity - Sky News Australia(Childhood Obesity News)
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New research suggests the childhood obesity epidemic is only increasing in lower-income families. The findings have raised questions on whether the millions of dollars of funding channelled into tackling childhood obesity, could be better targeted at the highest-risk groups, rather than focused on the general population. The research is based on measurements taken from thousands of Australian children in 2000 and 2006 in two nationally representative samples. It found the increase in childhood obesity overall had slowed significantly, rising slightly from 6. The obesity rate increased from 3. Read Childhood Obesity
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