The Social and Health Research Center (SHRC) in San Antonio, Texas, has found that overweight and obese children who live in poverty may have weight issues because they're not eating enough, and when they do eat, they consume the wrong things.

"Missing from the children's diets were four key nutrients: calcium, magnesium, potassium and phosphorus. All play important roles, but magnesium is involved in more than 300 enzymatic reactions in the body that help to spur metabolism and cell function."

SHRC Director Dr. Roberto Trevino said that when magnesium is missing from a child's diet, it predisposes that child to diabetes. Results of the study reveal a new facet of the fight against childhood obesity and put the emphases squarely on food & nutrition. Source: Star-Telegram (TX)

Labels: dieting, nutrition, poverty

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