N.C. children in rural counties, high poverty schools face obesity risk : eurekalert

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N.C. children in rural counties, high poverty schools face obesity risk

N.C. children in rural counties, high poverty schools face obesity risk

Students living in rural counties are 1.25 times more likely to be obese than city-dwellersDURHAM, N.C. -- North Carolina children who live in rural counties or attend high poverty schools are more likely to be obese, a newly published study finds.The research, available online this week in the Journal of School Health, analyzed Body Mass Index data from 74,665 third through fifth grade students from 317 urban and rural schools.The researchers looked at whether the socioeconomic and racial composition of a school affected the likelihood of children being obese.


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