Childhood obesity- and here’s the bad news in case you didn’t know
Tuesday, July 6th, 20105 Minutes to Fitness+ Club coming soon
I recently blogged about the best reason to get healthy and it was all about doing it for the children in our lives. You can see it here .
A friend just sent the graph above to me. It indicates the 1 out 3 children in the US are obese or overweight. This is an excerpt:
“The report also includes obesity rates among youths ages 10-17, and the results of a new poll on childhood obesity conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and American Viewpoint. The poll shows that 80 percent of Americans recognize that childhood obesity is a significant and growing challenge for the country, and 50 percent of Americans believe childhood obesity is such an important issue that we need to invest more to prevent it immediately. The survey also found that 84 percent of parents believe their children are at a healthy weight, but research shows nearly one-third of children and teens are obese or overweight. Obesity rates among youths ages 10-17 from the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) also were included in the 2009 F as in Fat report. Data collection for the next NSCH will begin in 2011. Currently, more than 12 million children and adolescents are considered obese.”
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2010/
Thoedor Geisel (Dr Seuss) said, “Let’s help our children. If we don’t who will?”