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Pediatric obesity
Pediatric, or childhood, obesity is a medical condition where a child is significantly overweight. Children with a body mass index (BMI) in the 95th percentile for thir heigh are considered obese. Pediatric obesity is associated with chronic diseases including diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.
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Obesity is a disease. It was once not considered to be a disease and to be a matter of will power and gluttony. It was also the case that we once thought that fat tissue had no metabolic func...
