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Childhood Obesity News - Jacob: Children gaining weight in a period where they once did not - Fort Worth Star Telegram

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The second comes from Ohio State University and Indiana University researchers who found that the increase in children’s body mass index, or BMI, during the summer was more than twice as fast as during the school year. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association of more than 1,000 children in 10 U. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children watch TV or play on a computer no more than two hours a day, and that boys and girls take 11,000 and 13,000 steps daily, respectively. A 2004 Stanford University study showed that 48 percent of children with overweight parents became overweight, compared to 13 percent of those with normal-weight parents. If you — and your child — adopt a healthy diet and exercise enough to be reasonably fit, you will stay at the low end of your weight range. Steve Jacob is publisher of the Star-Telegram/Arlington and Northeast Tarrant County and a master’s student in health policy and management at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. Read Childhood Obesity

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