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Girls more likely than boys to be fat in Sweden
The Globe & Mail (May 9, 2007 By: MATTIAS KAREN Associated Press) writes that a recent study by researchers at Sweden's Uppsala University shows that today's four-year-old girls are six times as likely to be obese as those 20 years ago - a bigger jump than among boys. The weight increase itself was expected - Swedes, along with most other Europeans, have been getting heavier. From 1982 to 2002, the percentage of overweight four-year-olds has roughly doubled to 20 per cent for girls and 18 per cent for boys. Obesity experts are scratching their heads, however, over the gender difference that emerges in the rates. According to data compiled by the International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO), the situation seems unique to Sweden.
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