Obesity can be set in the early years of a child’s life?

New research based on the Early Bird Study of children from birth to puberty and published in the Herald Sun December 19th 2008 found that obesity is determined before the age of five. The study found that at birth children were the same weight as children born 25 years ago but by puberty they’d gained more fat compared with children of the same age in the 1980s. Most of the excess weight was put on before the age of 5.