Childhood Obesity Facts

Nowadays, we are faced with childhood obesity that slowly turns into an epidemic, as more and more kids have become affected with this problem. The researches done by the National Institutes of Health show that the number of children who are overweight is two times bigger than it was in the last two to three decades. It means that presently one child in five is overweight. Further, childhood obesity doesn’t refer only to a particular age, group or race – it’s mostly spread during youth and adolescence among both boys and girls, regardless of their race.

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