The incidence of young Latino children obesity is a public health concern. Among 5-year-olds, 16% of Latinos are obese … compared with 10% of whites. Obesity disparities between non-Latino white and Latino children increase significantly with age …, and TV watching for explaining obesity disparities between 5-year-old white and Latino children. Also, the long …

We use longitudinal data on 11,000 UK-born children to examine the relationship between parental weight and income and … children’s overweight across childhood. We find that children are three times as likely to be overweight or obese at 14 if they … have an obese parent. Irrespective of their parents’ weight, children in the poorest 20% of families are twice as likely to …

rounds of the Health Survey for England (between 2000–2014; N = 31,043) for children aged 2–16. We regressed obesity in … more pronounced in children from low-income families, compared with children from high-income families. A 1 kg increase in …