Efforts to lower childhood obesity yielded mixed results last year in Sacramento County, according to statewide physical fitness test results released Wednesday.
About 58.2 percent of 5th, 7th and 9th graders tested in the county had a healthy body composition last school year, up slightly from 57.8 percent the prior year.
Most of the students with an unhealthy body composition are overweight enough to be deemed by the state at "high risk" for health problems.
The number of such "high risk" students in the county rose slightly, going from 27.5 percent to 27.7 percent.
Broken down by grade, local 5th and 7th graders saw slight improvements in the proportion of students at a healthy weight; ninth-graders saw slight declines. The same trends occurred statewide.
The state's body composition standards are based on two measures: the percent of fat in a child's body and the child's body mass index.
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