Article: WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE TUBBY TOTS.(Features)

Article: Tubby tots: How parents can help overweight ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Julia Sommerfeld SEATTLE _ No doubt you've seen the headlines, the warnings, the government reports all declaring childhood obesity an epidemic. Stories lamenting the super-sizing of our children may have you wondering if your own are at risk of becoming a statistic. Does your son's

Article: Beware of Tubby Tots.(regulation of food portion ...
Vibrant Life;  July 1, 2000 ;     493 words ...Very young children have a natural capacity to self-regulate their food intake. But new research shows that sometime between age 3 and 5 years children learn to ignore internal hunger signals and respond to other cues, including size of food portions on their plate. A small study at Pennsylvania

Article: Family Life: Tubby tots; Health and fitness better ...
Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  April 29, 2008 ;     367 words ...Byline: Compiled by MARIE TURBILL and JOANNE WELFORD One in five British children are estimated to be obese - a figure that has tripled in the past 20 years. Advice says that children and young people should do between 30 and 60 minutes of exercise every day. Future predictions reckon that by 2050

Article: Cereal Killers: Will Tubby Tots Thin '05 Kids ...
CableFAX;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Although the fast food and snack category could be shaken up by renewed calls to trim the fat from marketing aimed at children, cable nets are approaching the kids' upfront with a dollop of optimism. Kraft Foods sent tremors through the industry in Jan when it said it would halt advertising junk

Article: Experts stunned by tubby tots.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  April 26, 2006 ;     431 words ...Byline: Kate Jones and Karen Collier Apr 26, 2006 (Herald Sun - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Melbourne researchers have found that many young children are overweight. Researchers at the Royal Children's Hospital studied 340 children aged between four and six. The study revealed that 19.5 per cent were

Article: STUDY FINDS NUMBER OF TUBBY TOTS GROWING.(News)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  August 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Lee Bowman Scripps Howard News Service A 22-year-study that tracked the weight of more than 120,000 children under age 6 found that the prevalence of overweight tots has risen to 1 in 10 since 1980. "The obesity epidemic has spared no age group, even our youngest children," said Dr. Matthew

Article: Why danger lurks for tubby tots; Dear ...
The Mirror (London, England);  May 6, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Byline: MIRIAM STOPPARD I've always thought that the idealised image of a bonny, bouncing baby is much too fat to be healthy. Many mums still cling to the dangerously mistaken idea that a baby is supposed to be chubby. So I'm delighted that World Health Organisation growth charts for babies, which