How does a baby get to be obese?
By Madison Park, CNN. June 27, 2011 9:40 a.m. EDT
(CNN) -- A 4-year-old lumbered into a Boston pediatric clinic. He walked with a limp.
"He was carrying so much weight, he displaced his hips," recalled Dr. Elsie Taveras, co-director of the Obesity Prevention Program at Harvard Medical School.
The boy, an extreme example of childhood obesity, carried more than 100 pounds and had a body mass index that was over the 99th percentile for his age group.
He is part of a disturbing trend among the youngest Americans.
Poor diet, huge portion sizes, lack of physical activity, inadequate sleep and uninformed parents are contributing to larger numbers of overweight or obese young children.
Last week, the Institute of Medicine released its first report focusing on obesity prevention policies for children under the age of 5.
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