Disabilities Seen Complicating Anti-Obesity Efforts
A sedentary lifestyle and too much tasty but high-calorie food are fattening America’s children to an alarming degree, doctors and researchers agree. Now, some researchers are trying to determine how that trend affects children with disabilities.
More children than ever are overweight or obese, putting them at risk, as they reach adulthood, for such serious health problems as heart disease, bone and joint disorders, diabetes, and certain types of cancer.
Children with disabilities are just as tempted by food and the lure of television as those without such conditions. But unlike their typically developing peers, such children may face additional challenges, from a possible genetic propensity to be overweight, to a lack of outlets designed to help children with disabilities...
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