Childhood Obesity is Everyone’s Problem
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of obesity. Two thirds of American adults are either overweight or obese — and the epidemic also affects children.
Today, one third of all children ages 2-19 are overweight or obese. Most of these children will become diabetic. Even now, the costs of obesity are staggering — 112,000 Americans die each year due to obesity-related diseases, and care for obesity-induced conditions costs $150 billion each year.
ABC News reports:
“The generation of children born in 2000 will likely live shorter life spans their parents. Economic productivity of this generation will probably be less than their parents as well. Indeed, an obese adult adds $1,400 excess health care costs annually compared with his or her non-obese peers.”
Health News:
- Parents Don’t Recognize Obesity in Their Children
- Day Care is the Next Frontier in Fighting Childhood Obesity
- Hidden Costs of Obesity Bring Yearly Total to $73 Billion
- Should Parents Lose Custody of Super Obese Kids?
- The Heavy Price of Obesity in America: by the Numbers
- Childhood Obesity Linked to Health Habits, Not Heredity
- Infants are not Exempt from the Obesity Epidemic
- Obesity Takes Toll After 40
- USA is fattest of 33 countries
- New Study Shows Most Obese Moms and Kids Underestimate Their Weight
- Are Parents Killing Their Kids With Kindness?
- Obesity Accounts for Biggest Jump in Healthcare Spending
- Parents Clueless Regarding Their Overweight Kids
- ‘Stop using buggies’ say politicians in a bid to stop obesity epidemic
- 1 in 7 Low-Income Preschoolers Are Obese
- Your Neck Size is Better than BMI to Predict Your Body Fat
- Obesity Rates Will Reach 42 Percent
- True Weight Underestimated By Obese And Overweight Mothers And Their Children
- Nearly 10 Percent of Health Spending is for Obesity
- Lambs provide crucial link in understanding obesity
- Do Fat Doctors Help You Lose Weight?
- Obesity in the UK: Ditch the buggy or your child will get fat says MP Anne Milton
- 20 Percent of U.S. Preschoolers May be Headed for Chronic Disease
- Is Mass Poisoning Contributing To The Worldwide Obesity Epidemic?
- Preventable Child Illness Reaches Epidemic Levels
- Doing This to Your Mom Could Make You Twice as Likely to be Obese
- Diabesity and the Rising Obesity Epidemic
- Obesity Threatens National Security
- Why Do Americans Continue to Get Fatter?
- U.S. Obesity Rate Continues to Skyrocket
- Should Soda and Pizza be Taxed to Cut Obesity?
- Heart Disease Will Kill 400,000 Americans in 2010
- Lack of Sleep Linked To Childhood Obesity
- Obesity Can Trim 10 Years Off of Your Life
- 16 Minutes of Exercise Separates Fit and Unfit Kids
- How to Win the Food Battle with Your Child
- Why is the U.S. Falling Miserably at Teaching Kids about Exercise?
- A Fifth of Children End Grade School Obese
- Confronting Childhood Obesity: Educational Needs of Children, Adolescents, and Parents
- Childhood Obesity — It’s Not the Amount of TV, It’s the Number of Junk Food Commercials
- A quarter of children are overweight or obese by the age of FIVE
- Obesity epidemic: Overweight patients ‘dying because NHS is poorly prepared’
- Children Destined to Be Obese Can Be Identified by Age 3.5
- Does Your Baby’s Bottle Make Her Thighs Look Fat?
- 12 Unfathomable Obesity Stats — Makes You Want to Cry
- Obesity in Middle Age Bodes Ill For Old Age
- The Richest Fattest Nation on Earth (It’s Not the United States)
- Obesity is ‘The New Smoking’
- Obesity Linked to Lower Sperm Counts in Young Men
- Obesity Remains an Economic Issue
- Association Discovered Between Children’s BMI And Working Mothers
- The Key to Affordable Health Care: Healthier Lifestyles
- Hazards of Obesity Now Rival Smoking in U.S.
- Link Between Erectile Dysfunction And Obesity Explored In Obesity And Weight Management
- Obesity: Overweight youngsters have cholesterol levels of 50-year-olds, warn leading doctors
- Obesity Tied to Poorer Sperm Quality
- U.S. Lags in Life Expectancy Gains
- Family Meals, Adequate Sleep and Limited TV Dramatically Cut Risk of Childhood Obesity
- Omega-3 Fats Prevent the Medical Complications of Obesity
- Overeating is to Blame for the U.S. Obesity Epidemic
- Beware the Cafeteria Diet
- Study Debunks Notion of ‘Healthy Obese’ Man
- I call it the ‘baloney mass index’: Why U.S obesity epidemic is far worse than previously thought
- Obesity’s Impact on Gastrointestinal Health
- Obesity: Rising costs of caring for obese patients in Britain
- The Pill is Less Effective for Obese Women
- How to Get Your Kids to Exercise
- Fat Workers, Lean Profits?
- Study Links DDT and Obesity
- The Federal Fat Police: Bill Would Require Government to Track Body Mass of American Children
- Losing Body Fat Before Pregnancy Can Be Beneficial for Your Baby
- New sleep cycle discovery explains why fatty diets during pregnancy make kids obese
- Companies Focus On Wellness Programs To Help Bottom Lines
- Teenage Obesity: Learned Behavior from Parents?
- Obese Kids’ Stiff Blood Vessels Point to Heart Problems
- $1 Million Grant Aims to Reduce Obesity in Preschoolers
- Negative Emotions Outweigh Intent to Exercise
- Obesity may harm your sexual health, study suggests
- Heart Dangers Seen Even in Very Young Obese Children
- Obese: Children who start school overweight still struggling to fit in years later
- The Cost of Obesity
- Obesity Impacts Sexual Quality of Life
- Childhood Obesity Leads to an Early Grave
- More Americans Exercise, but They Are Still Obese
- Losing Body Fat Before Pregnancy Could Help Break Obesity Cycle
- True Insanity — Psychiatrists Promote Psychiatric Drugs as Weight Loss Tools
- Birth Control Effectiveness Linked to Weight
- Being Obese Can Cost a Man Eight Years
- Maternal Obesity is on the Rise
- Prepregnancy obesity linked to child test scores
- Can Obesity Be Caught Like the Common Cold?
- Major Risk Factor for MS Uncovered
- Unraveling the Obesity-Cancer Connection
- Yo-Yo Dieting is Healthier than Staying Obese
- Nearly 70 Percent of Older Americans are Obese
- Alternative Explanation for Why People Get Fat
- Mother’s obesity may lead to infertility in the next generation
- High pregnancy weight gain can lead to long-term obesity, study finds
- Chocolate Toddler Formula Pulled After Sugar Uproar
- The flip side of the obesity crisis: How some U.S. parents are putting their BABIES on diets
- Obese Women Have Higher Risk Of Suffering Breast Cancer
- Obesity crisis in primary schools as one-in-five 11-year-olds are now grossly overweight
- Obesity: Reviving the Promise of Leptin
- Obesity Raises Breast Cancer Patients’ Risk of Dying
- Childhood cancer costs driving parents into debt
- Alert on overweight children as obese show signs of heart disease at 15
- Obesity Accelerates Leukemia
- Weight worries for mothers-to-be
- Overweight Moms Face Greater Risk of Early Births
- Soft Drinks Firms Claim Sugary Sodas Cut in Schools
- Will Regina Benjamin Set a Bad Example as Surgeon General?
- Moose Show Human Arthritis Linked to Diet
- Too Few Docs Tell Patients They’re Overweight
- More Evidence Good Food is Good for You
- Parents’ Divorce May Contribute to Suicidal Thoughts Years Later
- Obesity Delays Boys’ Puberty
- More Than One-in-Four Americans Now Obese
- Overweight ‘higher asthma risk’
- Five Ways Parents Destroy their Children’s Health
- The World’s Fattest Countries
- Obese children as young as 11 to get a gastric implant on the NHS
- Overweight mothers increase asthma risk for their children, study finds
- California Pertussis Epidemic Actually Caused by Vaccine Failures
- Losing More Than 15% Body Weight Significantly Boosts Vitamin D Levels In Obese Women
- 1 in 3 Obese Kids May Have Caught the “Fat Flu”
- Fast Food and Sweets Advertised When Children Watch Television
- Obesity during pregnancy ‘could increase child’s risk of autism’
- Obesity: Children who have family meals are ‘less likely to be overweight and binge on junk food’
- ‘Helicopter parents’ who hover over their children’s every move leave them at risk of obesity by preventing healthy play, study claims
- Why Your Doctor May Be Silent about This Critical Health Issue …
- Antioxidants in pregnancy prevent obesity in animal offspring
- Child obesity ‘may harm thyroid’
- Middle age spread link to frailty
- FDA Increases Recommendations for Fatally Flawed Obesity Surgery
- Obese Non-smoking Women At An Increased Risk Of Premature Death
- Obesity increases the risk of fetal and infant death, and the risk of complications after hysterectomy
- Pennsylvania Makes Inroads Into Reducing Child Obesity
- Obesity harms teenage girls more than boys
- What Caused America to Go from Fit to Fat?
- Obesity: Britons fail to battle the bulge as 26 per cent of men AND women classed as obese
- Obesity and extreme slimness cause risks in pregnancy
- How Parents’ “Food Rules” May Backfire, and Bariatric Surgery for Kids
- White Tea: A Solution to the Obesity Epidemic?
- New Study Shows How Ignorant Experts Are about Diabetes in Kids
- Overweight Children at Risk of Disease as Teens
- Does Loving Yourself Help You Stick Better to Your Health Program?
- Diabetes Epidemic Expected to Double
- More American Adults Hobbled by Arthritis
- Thin parents pass on ‘skinny genes’ to their children
- Why are Kidney Stones on the Rise in South Carolina Children?
- Two Surprising Factors That Can Predict Heart Disease Risk
- Weight Worries For Mother-to-be
- Myths and truths of obesity and pregnancy
- Get Busy if You Want to Beat the Middle-Age Spread
- Do Fat Stars Make Obesity Seem Normal?
- Worldwide Obesity Doubled Over Past Three Decades
- 10-Fold Rise in Obesity Surgery
- Can Probiotics Help Slim Down Your Figure?
- Global Diabetes Epidemic Rages On
- Parents underestimate heavy toddlers’ weight
- Why Kids Need Recess and Exercise
- Is the Cafeteria Diet Responsible for the Obesity Epidemic?
- This Common Food Additive Now Linked to Weight Gain
- New Research Finds Obesity Negatively Impacts Income, Especially For Women
- Fat doctors ‘far less likely to help obese patients lose weight’
- Why TV Makes You Fat — It’s Not Why You Think
- Salt Reduction Could Save Nearly 100,000 Lives Each Year
- Are Blood Pressure Drugs Feeding the Obesity Epidemic?
- Obesity: Could gastric pacemaker retrain the overweight to eat more healthily?
- The Obesity Acceptance Factor
- Soaring obesity levels means NHS is now spending 8% of its total medicines bill treating diabetes
- Pre-pregnancy overweight may program teen asthma symptoms
- Overweight School Kids? Rampant Unhealthy Obesity? It is to Laugh.
- Obese Researcher Abuses Monkeys to Develop Diet Drugs that Will NEVER Work
- Could 18 Percent Tax on Soda Cut Health Care Costs?
- BJOG Release: What Is The Maternity Experience For Obese Women, Researchers Ask
- Krill Oil Counters Metabolic Dysfunctions
- Marie Eaton: Super obese mother who weighed more than partner and 4 children combined loses 31st
- Why Experts Say Men are the Weaker Sex
- Why Experts Say Men are the Weaker Sex
- Parents Continue to Give Cough and Cold Meds to Young Kids, Despite Warnings
- In pregnancy, diabetes-obesity combo a major red flag
- 4 Preventable Risk Factors Reduce U.S. Life Expectancy
- Sweets are ‘good for children and may stop them from getting fat in later life’
- Introducing Solid Food Too Soon Puts Babies at Risk for Early Obesity
- High BMI Linked to More Deaths in Nonsmoking Black Women
- C-section birth is linked to the risk of obesity
- Will Love Become a Pharma Drug One Day?
- Longer Looks: Shortage Of HIV Doctors; Oregon Program Builds On British Model
- How sweet ‘bribes’ to stop tantrums put children at obesity risk
- Interaction of Sleep Quality and Psychosocial Stress on Obesity in African Americans: The Cardiovascular Health Epidemiology Study (CHES)
- U.S in denial over obesity as one in four overweight adults ‘don’t think they have a problem’
- Simple Trick that May Override the Health Damages of Being Overweight
- Toddlers given milk at bedtime risk obesity, research claims
- Caffeine Negatively Affects Children, and Most of Them Consume Caffeine Daily
- Among Obese Women, Smoking Did Not Influence Breast Cancer Risk
- Chubby? Lethargic? Borderline Diabetic? Walk it Off
- Obesity in African-American Women Boosts Risk of Death
- Arguments Why Carbs Do Not Cause Obesity
- Maternal obesity puts infants at risk of iron deficiency
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