Almost 1 in 5 preschoolers is obese, and the numbers are even worse for minority groups, according to the largest analysis of obesity among 4-year-olds based on race and ethnicity.br /br /The study, published in this week’s emArchives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine/em, found that 18 percent of 4-year-olds are obese.br /br /Researchers, including epidemiologist Sarah Anderson of Ohio State University’s College of Public Health, looked at body mass index of 8,550 U.S. children involved in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study.br /br /Almost 13 percent of Asian children were obese, along with 16 percent of whites, almost 21 percent of blacks, 22 percent of Hispanics, and 31 percent of American Indians. Overall, boys were more likely to have weight problems than girls.br /br /Anderson encouraged parents to talk to their child’s doctor about weight concerns at an early age.br /br /strongDr. Grout’s Comment:/strongbr /br /Thank you Sarah Anderson for your study, people need the wake-up call. But “encouraging parents to talk to their doctors” is a non-starter. Most parents see the pediatrician regularly for “well baby visits.” Obviously neither the pediatrician, nor the gynecologist who preceded him, talked about healthy food and diet. And no wonder, conventional American medical schools give doctors about 6 hours on nutrition.br /br /The government also fosters the a href=”http://www.arizonaadvancedmedicine.com/articles/childhood_obesity.html”childhood obesity/a problem with its federal commodity programs for low-income people offer include lots of pastas, rice and other high-carbohydrate foods. An estimated 40% of all drug costs are spent on suppressing the symptoms or the expression of poor diet – high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, abdominal weight gain, stroke, osteoarthritis, etc.br /br /At the Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine, we use a program called “a href=”http://www.arizonaadvancedmedicine.com/therapies/first_line_therapy.html”FirstLine Therapy/a” that is scientifically based and was created to prevent disease, rather than wait for it to manifest. It is not a fad diet. It is an education program about how to feed your body to be healthy. Food is medicine.div class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4769404502414351890-4501436374537291758?l=arizonaadvancedmedicine.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div