"The effects of neighborhood poverty on children's weight may be just as important as the effects of family poverty," according to a study published in the Journal of Applied Development Psychology. Researchers from Cornell, Princeton, and Columbia Universities found that by age 2, low birth-weight infants from poor areas have higher body mass index levels compared to low birth-weight peers from wealthier neighborhoods, and that the risk of obesity for children in the former category stays higher as they grow up.
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