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Sleep tied to child obesity

Posted on April 15, 2008

Here's another study looking at the sleep-weight connection. This one focuses on children. Harvard University researchers found that babies who slept 12 hours or more a day were less likely to be obese by age 3. Not surprisingly, toddlers who... ...

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