Chubby babies are cute, but chubby children are symptomatic of a growing health risk. The childhood weight problem is reaching epidemic proportions with almost one out of four Australian children currently classified as either overweight or obese, according to the 2007-08 National Health Survey of youngsters between the ages of 5 and 17. A report from the Australia Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), Australia's health 2006, showed that the population of overweight and obese children rose from 20 percent in 1997 to 25 percent in2004. Data from the Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) project estimates that number rose to 29.6 percent in 2008.
However, the problem goes deeper, and younger. The AIHW
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