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Sat 07 Jul 2009Children from poor backgrounds more likely to be overweight
ONE IN five nine year olds in Ireland is overweight and a further 7 per cent are obese putting them at risk of disease now and in the future, the research has found.
Girls in this age group are more likely than boys to be classified as overweight or obese with 22 per cent of 9-year-old girls in the national longitudinal study of children classified as overweight compared to 17 per cent of boys and 8 per cent of them obese compared to 6 per cent of boys.
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