A study was done in Britain to see if being obese as a child had a life time affect. The study showed that being obese as a child does not mean a life of obesity. Also being obese as a child was not linked to obesity in an adult. Only children who were obese at age thirteen had an increased risk of obesity as adults. Being thin as a child has no help in obesity as an adult. Obese children are having abnormal blood pressure and cholesterol values.

This research did not impress an Australian public health researcher who said that current social conditions make it hard for obese kids to ever get the weight off. (http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s431263.htm)

Dr. Clare Colins said the problem was exacerbated by the fact that more than 30 percent of parents with overweight children did not realize that their child was overweight and were failing to act on the problem. Research has shown that obese adolescent girls were more likely to have lower education levels, lower incomes and be livi

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