{"id":2994,"date":"2014-01-29T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/being-overweight-in-kindergarten-sets-stage-for-later-obesity\/"},"modified":"2014-01-29T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:15:09","slug":"being-overweight-in-kindergarten-sets-stage-for-later-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/29\/being-overweight-in-kindergarten-sets-stage-for-later-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Being overweight in kindergarten sets stage for later obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gene Emery NEW YORK (Reuters Health) &#8211; Children who are overweight when they start school are far more likely to be obese by the time they become teenagers, according to a new study of nearly 8,000 children. Overweight five-year-olds were four times more likely to be obese by age 14 than children who started kindergarten at a healthy weight. &#8220;Half of childhood obesity occurred among children who had become overweight during the preschool years,&#8221; researchers led by Solveig Cunningham of Emory University in Atlanta wrote. &#8220;If we&#8217;re just focused on improving weight when kids are adolescents, it may not have as much of an impact as focusing on the preschool-age years,&#8221; Cunningham told Reuters Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gene Emery NEW YORK (Reuters Health) &#8211; Children who are overweight when they start school are far more likely to be obese by the time they become teenagers, according to a new study of nearly 8,000 children. Overweight five-year-olds were four times more likely to be obese by age 14 than children who started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}