Your Toddler May Soon Be Fat Again
We Have No Clue Why Childhood Obesity Rates Plummeted—Or Why They Rose in the First Place
Late last month, a New York Times headline announced: “Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade.” The story, pegged to a study published by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, heralded the drop among children aged 2 to 5 years old as exciting news and a sign of progress in our national battle against obesity.
Last week in the same newspaper, food columnist and author Mark Bittman called the toddler obesity plunge a “tribute to the …
