40% of NYC students are too fat: study

Courtesy NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News  Sat, 09/04/2010 - 15:05

A shocking number of young city students are overweight or obese - with about half the youngsters in some zip codes tipping the scales too heavily, a new city report shows.


 

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