STUDY: MENTAL HEALTH MAY BE KEY TO CHILDHOOD OBESITY.(Living)

From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: November 13, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Valerie Reitman Los Angeles Times

Dr. Julie Lumeng started noticing an alarming pattern while treating children with behavioral problems at an inner-city Boston hospital. When the children -- who recently had become angry or anxious, antisocial, withdrawn or depressed -- returned to the clinic for follow-up visits three to six months later, they often had gained dramatic amounts of weight.

Lumeng, a pediatrician, began to wonder whether the behavioral problems were triggering the weight gains. The opposite had long been thought to be true -- that is, that ...

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