Child Care Providers Can Be Part Of The Solution For Childhood Obesity
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 17:40
in Health & Medicine
Should child care providers be tasked with childhood obesity too? The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys found that over 21% of children ages 2 to 5 were considered overweight or even obese. That has led some advocates to posit that child care settings can tackle teaching children about nutrition, since nearly 50% of children in the United States under age 5 go to some kind of child care. read more