Obesity plateau?

The rate of childhood obesity may have plateaued, says this article citing research from the Journal of the American Medical Association. From the Bloomberg report:

About 32 percent of children ages 2 to 19 were at risk for being overweight or obese from 2003 to 2006, little changed from 1999, according to data in tomorrow's Journal of the American Medical Association. Of those, 16 percent were overweight or obese and 11 percent were considered the heaviest kids.

TK: Health advocates are worried that this story - offering only a modest hope that obesity has hit its peak - could even so decrease the will to come up with a comprehensive and effective public policy to combat obesity in kids.