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Bullies Target Obese Kids

Posted on May 3, 2010

Need another reason to help your child get healhier?  As you may suspect, new research shows that just being overweight increases a child's risk of being bullied by 63 percent! The research, reported in this Health Day story, was done to consider if the fact that since more and more children are overweight and obese would they be more accepting.  Emphatically, the answer was no.