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A new research post, focussing on childhood obesity, has been set up at Otago University thanks to a gift from charitable society KPS.
KPS is an organisation which supports early childhood health and well being and the research post will form part of the university's diabetes research centre.
Centre Director Professor Jim Mann says it is an exciting opportunity to help tackle New Zealand's worrying obesity epidemic. He says there is very strong evidence childhood weight and adult health are linked.
Mann says the impact from diabetes is starting to be felt with type two diabetes being diagnosed in teenagers and others even younger.
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