http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/5909 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/infant-weight-gain-linked-childhood-obesity <!--paging_filter--><p>As childhood obesity continues its 30-year advance from occasional curiosity to cultural epidemic, health care providers are struggling to find out why — and the reasons are many. Increasingly sedentary environments for both adults and children, as well as cheap and ubiquitous processed foods no doubt play a role, but researchers are finding more evidence that the first clues for childhood obesity may begin as far back as early infancy. </p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/infant-weight-gain-linked-childhood-obesity">read more</a></p> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:03:04 -0400 50443248 20692 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/suboptimal-sleep-tv-watching-correlate-with-overweight-infants-and-toddlers <!--paging_filter--><p>Infants and toddlers who sleep less than 12 hours a day are twice as likely to become overweight by age 3 than children who sleep longer. In addition, high levels of television viewing combined with less sleep elevate the risk, so that children who sleep less than 12 hours and who view two or more hours of television per day have a 16 percent chance of becoming overweight by age 3.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/suboptimal-sleep-tv-watching-correlate-with-overweight-infants-and-toddlers">read more</a></p> Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:25:02 -0400 404132862 20222 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu