Childhood Obesity May Raise Risk of Later Depression
(WorldNews Indonesia)

Being overweight or obese in childhood may substantially increase one´s lifetime risk of major depression, according to a new study presented at the European Congress on Obesity. Researchers found that children who were overweight at age 8 or 13 had more than triple the risk of developing major depression later in life, while carrying excess weight over a lifetime (both as a child and as an adult) quadrupled the chance of developing depression compared to only being overweight as an adult....