Accelerated Summer Weight Gain in a Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse Sample of Elementary School Children in Massachusetts.

CONCLUSIONS: Children in this high-risk sample gained weight at a faster rate during the summer than during the school year, with no discernable demographic differences. However, this phenomenon was not observed in the subgroup exposed to a school year walk/run program. More research is needed to clarify the determinants of summer weight gain and understand how school year programming and its effects can be transferred to the summer months. PMID: 30888836 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Childhood Obesity - Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Tags: Child Obes Source Type: research