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Study: Young Girls More Likely to Be Fat

physorg.com — As every Western nation struggles with child obesity, the Swedes are puzzled by an unusual blip in the data: Why are little girls more likely to be fat than little boys? A recent study by researchers at Sweden's Uppsala University showed that today's 4-year-old girls were six times as likely to be obese compared to 20 years ago - a bigger jump than

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  • tekrat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Most of their figures are based on results from 1982 to today. What has happened since 1982?
    - Cable/Satellite TV has grown exponentially
    - Playground equipment has been dumbed down for safety, to point that most kids are bored with it and will not play on it.
    - Green space is shrinking giving children less area to explore
    - The internet has become popular - Making the parents less likely to leave their computers and by proxy making the kids more sedimentary
    - Video games has become more story based and multi-player, unlike Pong and PacMan that you could pick and put down when ever you wanted - Again, making the parents less likely to leave their consoles and by proxy making the kids more sedimentary
    - VTech like educational devices are simply making kids sit down more
    - Attitudes about being fat has become more universally acceptable

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