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This is all over the British press today. I can't find a news release about
it on the WHO website yet; it will probably be up early next week.
Meanwhile, read this.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1406356,00.html
From the article:
At a conference in London organised by the WHO and the International Obesity
Task Force yesterday, where the findings were presented, Ricardo Uauy,
professor of public health nutrition of the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, said American babies could no longer be considered the
healthy norm.
"Times have changed since the new generations in the US are now affected by
the obesity epidemic," he said. Some of the babies on whom the growth charts
were based were now part of it.
"A significant proportion of those children, presently middle-age adults,
are suffering from nutrition related chronic disease ... it is questionable
that the growth of US children should be considered 'optimal' in terms of
life long health."
Rachel Myr
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