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December 31, 2004

Call for action as over 10% of US under-5s reported overweight

THE United States’ obesity epidemic has reached the playpen, according to research, with more than 10 per cent of children aged two to five reported to be overweight.

That is up from 7 per cent in 1994, according to the American Heart Association’s annual statistical report on heart disease and stroke.

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Posted by Tom Troceen