Saturday, March 13, 2010

Girls’ Weight Linked to Behavior Problems

April 13, 2009 by Jo  
Filed under Children, Fitness, Health, Parenting

Being overweight is linked much more strongly with behavior problems in girls entering kindergarten than in boys, U.S. researchers said.
Researchers at RAND Corporation studied almost 10,000 children as young as 5 years old entering kindergarten. They collected information on height, weight and parent- and teacher-reported behavior problems three times over the children’s first two years [...]