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Obesity not only harms a child's body, but it also causes significant psychological damage to children as young as 10, a large new Canadian study shows.

The study, based on a nationally representative sample of 10 and 11-year olds, found that obese children had almost twice the odds of reporting low self-esteem when compared to normal-weight kids.

And those whose self-esteem was low at the start of the study…