Parents should monitor their child’s weight from the age of two

Medical X-Press – Lamiece Hassan

One in five children in England are overweight by the time they start primary school. Nationally, children are weighed and measured, aged four to five, during their first year of school. But findings from our new study suggest that to prevent obesity parents should keep an eye on their children’s weight from as early as age two. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-parents-child-weight-age-oftwo.html