Should you worry about your kid's pandemic weight gain?-534247
Should you worry about your kid’s pandemic weight gain? The New York Times 6th February, 2021 06:35:40 Last spring, scientists predicted that the COVID-19 pandemic might contribute to a rise in children’s body weight, because of school closures and families hunkering down with comfort foods, lacking access to healthful meal options and exercising less. Yet while we know that childhood hunger has risen precipitously during the pandemic, we don’t have much data on whether children’s body sizes have changed in the past year. “One of the challenges in even collecting that data is that a...