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Girls are much more likely than boys to be overweight at age 7(04/01/2011)
Researchers at the Institute of Education, University of London, who have been monitoring the weights of more than 11,000 children born between 2000 and 2002, have calculated that girls are almost 50 per cent more likely than boys to be too heavy at age 7. About one in four girls (23%) was overweight at this age, compared with just over one in six boys (18%). The researchers also found that seven-year-olds with no brothers or sisters are about 25 per cent more likely to be overweight than you... [more]
Parents' social class has a bigger influence on children's progress between 5 and 7 than many parenting practices(21/12/2010)
Researchers who analysed the assessment scores of more than 11,000 seven-year-olds found a strikingly large performance gap between the children of parents in professional and managerial jobs and those with parents who were long-term unemployed. Children’s different rates of progress in their first two years at school are still largely driven by their parents’ social class, a UK-wide study has concluded. Even after allowing for other factors such as ethnicity and family size, the children of ... [more]
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