When mom and dad get laid off, the kids start to put on the pounds.
That’s according to a new study of public school children in California conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins University. The study looked at the weights of 1.7 million students during the 2008-2012 recession, and identified an average 4 percent risk of becoming overweight among them.
The study charted the percentage of students ages 7 to 18 years of age who were overweight during that time. The percentage rose from 28 percent in 2008 to 40 percent a year later. By 2012, the percent was down to 37 percent — still nearly 10 percentage points higher than prior to the recession.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
