Texas Tips the Scale on Childhood Obesity
From Times Wire Reports
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the children.
A study released by the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston has found that younger Texas children have a much higher rate of obesity than the national average.
Data collected from 6,000 students in the fourth, eighth and 11th grades found that 22% in the fourth grade and 19% in the eighth grade were overweight, compared with about 15% in those grades nationally.
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