Source: Study: Many Kids Too Fat by Preschool, Lauran Neergaard, The Christian Post, December 29, 20

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• 17 percent of U.S. youngsters are obese.

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• Overweight preschoolers have a five times
  higher risk of being fat at age 12 than do lean
  preschoolers according to data on more than 2,000
  3-year-olds from a study that tracks from birth
  children born to low-income families in 20 large
  U.S. cities.

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• Thirty-two percent of the white and black tots
  were either overweight or obese.

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• 44 percent of the Hispanics.

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• Children were particularly at risk if their
  mothers were obese and those who still took a
  bottle to bed at age 3.

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• This stat includes 14 percent of the Hispanic
  youngsters
• 6 percent of the whites
• 4 percent of the blacks

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• Pediatricians say even babies should never take
  a bottle to bed, and that children should start
  drinking from a cup around age 1.