Pre-school students at the Community Nursery School eat foods they helped prepare as they take part in a program that teaches them to prepare and enjoy healthy foods in Lexington, MA on March 26, 2018. (Photo by Keith Bedford/The Boston Globe via Get The key to combating obesity in adulthood could lie in early childhood education, according to a recent study funded by the National Institute of Health.The study, conducted by Dr.
Arthur J. Reynolds of the University of Minnesota, concluded that comprehensive, school-based early childhood programs could lead to improvements in body mass index (BMI) later in life.Roughly 700 children from high-poverty, mostly-Black areas of Chicago participated in a comprehensive preschool program that provided.