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As more and more children become obese more and more articles describe the ill effects and precursors of obesity. The take home messages from a spate of articles in a single issue of the Journal of Pediatrics are: 1) severe obesity may cause renal disease; 2) overweight children are often still obese, and more likely than others to have cardiovascular risk factors, as …