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Parents take note: fighting childhood obesity begins at home. (health matters).(Brief Article)
We've reported on the topic of childhood obesity before, but the statistics get more and more frightening. Childhood obesity is increasing so dramatically that it's reaching epidemic proportions. A recent study conducted by Dr. Richard Strauss and Harold Pollack (The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2001;2845-2848) looked at data to investigate recent changes in the prevalence of overweight in children aged 4 to 12. What did they find? Between 1986 and 1998, overweight increased by more than 120 percent among African Americans and Hispanics and by more than 50 percent among whites. The sharpest increases were seen among boys.
The authors suggest that the overweight increases stem from a variety of causes, and that, "Provision of high-fat meals and ...
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