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Early monitoring key to childhood obesity: study
Samoa has one of the highest prevalences of childhood obesity in the world. The Samoa Observer reports on the results of Courtney Choy's Brown University Department of Epidemiology doctoral dissertation, which finds a clear need for intervention before a child turns five, especially for Samoan children in urban areas, eating what has become the now-normal diet of imported and packaged foods. Interrupting this lifestyle could be an effective way to prevent obesity and related cardiometabolic diseases, Choy finds.
Source: Samoa Observer