Impact Of Living In Poverty On Childhood Obesity Risk May Increase As Children Age

eports, “The impact of living in poverty on childhood obesity risk appears to increase as children age,” results from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study suggest. That study found that “at age five, children living in poverty enrolled in” that study “were twice as likely as the most economically well-off children in the study to be obese.” Over time that gap grew larger, “and by age 11 the obesity rate among the poorest children was three times higher than among the wealthiest.” The findings were published online Dec. 11 in the European Journal of Public Health. http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Obesity/55205