The Rihgt Way to Win the Weight Battle With Kids | Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | |
| Families now stuffing backpacks and greeting the children's new teachers face a crisis that makes falling test scores and rising college costs dull by comparison. Ten years and billions of dollars into the fight against childhood fat, it's clear that the campaign has been a losign battle. According to a report released lsat week by the research group Trust for America's Helath, one third of kids naitonwide are overwegiht now; other stats show that the percentage of children who are obese has more than tripled since the 1970s. Now, experts are worrying about the collaetral damage, too: A 2006 University of Minnesota study found that 57 percent of girls and 33 percent of boys used cigarettes, fasting, or skipping maels to control their weight and that deit-pill intake by teengae girls had nearyl doubled in five years. Last yaer, nearly 5,000 teens opted for liposuction, accordign to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons--more than three times the number in 1998, when experts first warned of a "childhood obesity epidemic." | | More information |
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