Intervention lowered obesity rate in youth at high diabetes risk, HEALTHY study finds

An intervention in middle schools lowered the obesity rate in students at highest risk for type 2 diabetes, those who started out overweight or obese in sixth grade, an NIH-funded study has found. However, schools that implemented the program did not differ from comparison schools in the study's primary outcome -- the prevalence of overweight and obesity combined -which had declined 4 percent in both groups of schools by the end of the three-year study.