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Overweight Kids Don’t Have to Be Overweight Adults
Overweight children often become obese adults, with attendant problems such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
But a new study suggests there are "critical windows" where that path to weight gain can be changed.
The study, involving more than 2,700 Finnish adults, found what many studies have shown before: Childhood body mass index, or BMI, is a good predictor of adulthood obesity.
Keeping Weight Off: 3 Steps to Success
Weight loss and weight management are drilled into the lives of people with type 2 diabetes and those at high risk for developing the disease. If losing weight was easy, we wouldn’t have a nationwide obesity problem.
Dr. Deneen Vojta, chief clinical officer of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance at United Health Group, says many people who have experienced long-term success at keeping weight off for five years or more in the National Weight Control Registry do three things.