Back-to-school shopping is a breeze if you're looking for a girl's size 6X, junior size 7 or boy's size L
Merchants are packed with logo T-shirts, hip jeans, hoodie sweaters and athletic pants in standard kids' and teen sizes

But try to find the same trends in a girls' size 121/2, junior size 19 or guys' size 2XL and you'll find that many of the same companies who court young business are noticeably devoid of large sizes For the estimated 6 million overweight kids in the U S who are too large to fit in to mainstream youth offerings, back- to-school shopping can be grueling And the ranks are growing: according to Newsweek, the proportion of U S kids who are overweight jumped from 5 percent in 1964 to nearly 13 percent in 1994, the most recent year on record
The magazine also says experts believe the trend has accelerated and one child in three is either overweight or in risk of becoming so
For these children, the school experience is one of "ongoing prejudice, unnoticed discrimination and almost constant harassment," according to the National Education Association
There are many good resources dealing with weight management in children