Healthy eating programs in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, such as preschools and day care centers, may potentially improve children’s diet quality and reduce the risk of overweight and obesity. However, more research is needed to strengthen and optimize these interventions, according to a recent comprehensive review by Cochrane.
Body Mass Index
BMI is a measurement of the relative percentages of fat and muscle mass in the human body, in which mass in kilograms is divided by height in meters squared and the result used as an index of obesity.
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