Toddlers don't always outgrow chubbiness - Yahoo! News
This study has to do with 2 year old babies, but Zach is so pudgy we get worried. In addition, we had the TV on yesterday and happened to run into a Maury Povich thing on overweiught children. He had 5 year olds on that weighed over 105 lbs and their parents liked it! Unbelievable. I think we have plenty of time, but still scary.
CHICAGO - Pudgy toddlers face a good chance of becoming overweight 12-year-olds, according to government research that shoots down the notion that kids just naturally outgrow early chubbiness.Children who were overweight at age 2 or later during their preschool years faced a five times higher risk of being overweight at age 12 than youngsters who were not overweight early on, the study found. Sixty percent of the children who were overweight at any time during the preschool period were overweight at age 12.
Children were considered overweight if their body-mass index was in the 85th percentile or higher for their gender and age. That means they were heavier than at least 85 percent of children their same age and sex.
"These results suggest that any time a child reaches the 85th percentile for BMI may be an appropriate time for intervention," the researchers wrote.
