But it wasn't the normal-weight children who were drinking the most skim or 1% fat milk.

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But the data on normal-weight 2-year-olds who drank 1% milk and still gained weight contradicts this idea.

CNN: Drinking skim milk may not lower child obesity risk

Forty-nine percent and 61% of overweight and obese adolescents, respectively, had at least one risk factor, compared to just 37% of normal-weight kids.

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The report notes that when it comes to retirement, severely and morbidly obese employees retire earlier than normal-weight employees, which translates to less income in wages and benefits.

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In fact, after adjusting for the effect of the other beverages, 14% of the heavier 2-year-olds drank 1% milk compared to 9% of normal-weight youngsters, and 16% of the overweight or obese 4-year-olds drank the 2% milk compared to 13% of the normal-weight 4-year-olds.

CNN: Drinking skim milk may not lower child obesity risk

Anderson and her co-author are unable to say with any certainty that eating dinner together more often, getting more sleep, and watching less TV will help any given child lose weight, because of the other factors that may contribute to a child's obesity (or that may protect normal-weight children from becoming obese).

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She was vomiting, had bad diarrhea and weighed just over 8 pounds, 40% the normal weight for a 1-year-old.

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The comic wanted to be entirely free of the drug - which he had used to treat pulmonary fibrosis, an inflammatory lung disease - and be back to his normal weight by March.

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Onge's study may be a step toward answering that "chicken-or-the-egg question" because it included only people of normal weight and therefore eliminated the influence of existing overweight or obesity, says Gina Lundberg, M.

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He believes the best way for women in this age-group to keep their bones strong is to keep their body weight within normal levels and make sure they are exercising regularly.

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While obese people had a higher risk of death -- particularly those whose BMI was 35 or more -- overweight people had a 6% lower risk of death than those of normal weight.

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"She admitted she had stuffed rocks in her clothes, in the pockets, so she could make her weight look a little more close to the normal range, " Dr. Reid-Chassiakos says.

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