Kids Gain Weight Over Summer :

It seems that schools do a better job than parents when it comes to keeping kids trim. I always assumed that the summer months were the active months, and winter was when the weight gain occurred.

However new research shows that the BMI of young children "increased on average more than twice as much during summer break compared with the school year".

For the study, Indiana University and Ohio State researchers studied the growth rates of the body-mass indexes of 5,380 kindergartners and first-graders. The data came from a National Center for Education Statistics survey that ran from fall 1998 to spring 2000 in 310 schools across the country.

These kids were 5 to 6 years old - so it's not like they were borrowing dads car and heading down to Burger King. Perhaps summer holidays become a time to blob around - watching TV and playing video games.

see more at Yahoo News .

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