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Lack of sleep may cause weight gain in kids

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By ABC7
Thursday, May 26, 2011
LOS ANGELES

The study, published in the British Medical Journal, found that the fewer hours a child slept, the greater their risk of a having a higher body mass index (BMI) by the age of 7.

They also found that for every additional hour of sleep a child got, the risk of obesity went down by 60 percent.

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