The “Let’s MOve” Campaign shared that in recent years, obesity rates for preschool-aged children have declined slightly but still remain much too high. Children who are overweight or obese as preschoolers are five times more likely to become obese adults than normal weight children.
- Approximately 23 percent of children aged two to five years are overweight or obese.
- Obesity rates for young children doubled in about a 20 year period of time (1980s – 2000s).
- One out of eight low-income, preschool-aged children is obese.
- Some children are at higher risk for obesity: American Indian and Alaska Native (20.7%) and Hispanic (17.9%) children aged two to four years have the highest rates of obesity.
Read more about the prevalence of child obesity in the United States.
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