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A study says more American kids have been growing overweight – and, the study, which looked at different generations of kids, finds overweight kids have been growing even fatter.

Drs. Youfa Wang and May Beydoun of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared national data on children from 1999 through 2004 with their counterparts a decade earlier. Dr. Wang says it’s not just what they weighed, but where the weight was:

"Over this 10-year period, we found American children becoming heavier. Also, we found they put on more abdominal fat." (6 seconds)

The increase in waist size especially could cause more health problems.

The study in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

The First Lady has started a whole campaign, Let's Move, which is America's move to raise a healthier generation of kids. What are you doing to make your family healthier?

Click Here to view a great video of the First Lady visiting an elementary school, where she joined in on gym class, shared health tips, and experienced a family-style lunch with the students.