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San Clemente Has Fewer Fat Kids than 21 OC Cities
Though our children aren't the slimmest on the list, a UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study finds San Clemente has one of the lower child obesity rates in Orange County.
Some 21 percent of kids in San Clemente were overweight or obese as of 2010, according to a recent study.
The numbers fall well below the 38-percent state average and the 33 percent average for Orange County.
The OC town with the leanest children is Laguna Beach at 14 percent. Stanton has the most overweight kids at 52 percent.
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San Clemente's kids are thinner than kids in 21 other OC cities, while percentages of overweight children are lower in just five other cities. (See attached PDF)
More than 250 California cities were included in the study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, revealing "shocking discrepancies based on locale."
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