<p>First lady Michelle Obama does a bunny hop dance with pre-schoolers at the Penacook Community Center in Concord, N.H., as part of her Let's Move initiative on March 9, 2012.</p>
February 1, 2014
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Study: Kids' obesity risk starts before school ageStudy: Kids' obesity risk starts before school age
Research tracks nationwide sample of more than 7,700 children through grade school
Those efforts to fight obesity in schools? Think younger. A new study finds that much of a child's "weight fate" is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth grade were already overweight when they started kindergarten.