Obesity
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Historical Article
Extending the history of child obesity in the United States: The Fels Longitudinal Study, birth years 1930-1993.
Little is known about the prevalence of child obesity in the US before the first national survey in 1963. There is disagreement about whether the obesity epidemic is entirely a recent phenomenon or a continuation of longstanding trends. ⋯ Most of the results suggest that the child obesity epidemic was recent and sudden. The recency of the epidemic offers some hope that it may be reversed.