http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Obesity rates among small children may finally be on the decline after more than tripling in the United States the past 30 years, a study out Wednesday indicated. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-childhood-obesity-dips-decades.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 27 Dec 2012 06:41:46 EST news275812895 "Obesity and extreme obesity in childhood, which are more prevalent among minority and low-income families, have been associated with other cardiovascular risk factors, increased health care costs, and premature death. Obesity and extreme obesity during early childhood are likely to continue into adulthood. Understanding trends in extreme obesity is important because the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors increases with severity of childhood obesity," writes Liping Pan, M.D., M.P.H., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues. National trends in extreme obesity among young children living in low-income families have not been known. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-obesity-declining-preschool-aged-children-low-income.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:00:05 EST news275576788