Chairs made for older and bigger students are being used in middle and elementary schools to comfortably fit overweight and obese students.

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In elementary school, obese students are 63% more likely to be bullied than their non-overweight peers, according to a 2012 report from the Rudd Center.

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The administration cited a bevy of statistics to back the ban, such as more than half of city adults, or 58%, are overweight or obese and nearly 40% of city public-school students in eighth grade or below are obese or overweight.

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When city health officials voted to approve the large-drink ban in the fall, they routinely pointed to statistics showing that 58% adults citywide are overweight or obese, and nearly 40% of public-school students in eighth grade or below are obese or overweight.

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In Indian Country, 1 in 3 children are overweight or obese before their 5th birthday and a national survey of American Indian and Alaska Native high school students from urban and suburban areas found that 18.9 percent are obese.

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