Childhood Obesity Causing Parents to Outlive Their Children

Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Childhood Obesity Causing Parents to Outlive Their Children @livligahome

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has stated that we are now living in a generation where parents are going to out live their children due to childhood obesity. According to the CDC, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2010.  In 2010, more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese. We have to face it: we are killing our kids with food. Click here to read the entire article...


re-posted from Sheila's Blog on TheEpochTimes.com

No comments