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Childhood obesity can damage brain function, study finds

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The pandemic might have had a greater impact on our young children’s health than has been realized up to now. The impact came not through children contracting COVID-19 itself, but in the weight that many put on as a result of the disruption that it caused in their lives.

They were forced to stay indoors for long periods of time and to take part in remote learning, which cut down on the access to healthy school meals and organized physical activity. This led to many putting on more weight than they otherwise might have done.

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