300 babies born on new Year's Day ' will be obese or overweight by the time start school'
More than 300 babies born in the 24 hours of New Year's Day will be obese or overweight by the time they are ready to start school, according to a new estimate.
Rates of severe childhood obesity have tripled in the last 25 years, putting many children at risk for diabetes and heart disease, according to a report in Academic Pediatrics by an obesity expert at Brenner Children's Hospital, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.