A recently completed survey of 1,000 children in the country town of Colac, in Victoria, showed that 27% of the primary-school students were overweight or obese.* A recently completed survey of 1,000 children in the country town of Colac, in Victoria, showed that 27% of the primary-school students were overweight Overweight Refers to an investment position that is larger than the generally accepted benchmark. Notes: For example, if a company normally holds a portfolio whose weighting of cash is 10%, and then increases cash holdings to 15%, the portfolio would have an overweight or obese o·bese adj. Extremely fat; very overweight. obese characterized by obesity. obese adjective Characterized by obesity, see there; excessively fat . Among the girls, the proportion was 31%. And in the kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be group of four-year-olds, more than 30% were overweight. Dr Colin Bell Colin Bell MBE (26 February 1946), is a former English football player who was born in Hesleden, County Durham, England. Nicknamed "The King of the Kippax" (after Manchester City's Kippax terraced stand renowned for its singing), and Nijinsky after the famous racehorse (due to his , the leader of the study, reporting to a meeting of the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity, said this 'points to their home environment. The younger the children, the more their home environment is involved' (Sydney Morning Herald, 27/10/03, p.3). |
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