Child Overweight Rate Tops 30 Percent in 30 States
By
Jane St. Clair
July 07, 2009
A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America's Health has revealed that nearly one-third of children in 30 U.S. states are either overweight or obese. The problem is the worst in Mississippi, where 44.4 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 17 are either overweight or obese.
The report, titled "“F As in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America,” was released July 1.
With several studies showing that overweight children are more likely to become obese or overweight adults, the results of this survey may mean that many more Americans will experience obesity-related health conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancer in the future.
“There is a huge wave of obese adults coming that will bankrupt us as a nation unless we get this under control,” Dr. James Marks, vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said in a press release that announced the report's publication.
Other experts have said that continued increases in childhood overweight and obesity may result in this being the first generation of U.S. children to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
“How are we going to be able to compete with the rest of the world if our economy and workforce are weighed down by bad health?” asked Jeff Levi, executive director of the Trust for America's Health.
Researchers from the two nonprofit organizations determined their results through analysis of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Risk Factor Surveillance System from the years 2006 to 2008.
The survey found that 20 million adult Americans have diabetes, representing a doubling of the disease in the past 10 years. Fifty-seven million Americans are pre- diabetic.
There was one bright spot in the new report: Only 23 states experienced an increase in obesity rates over the previous 12 months, an improvement from the 37 states that were revealed to have higher overweight and obesity rates in last year's survey.
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Each child is getting obese nowadays, I'm afraid that one day my kids will be like them so i trained them to have a regular exercise. After a break in my stressful writing jobs I would even call them to remind that to make those routines.
"Cute!", this is the word I can hear every time I saw a overweight children. Some parents are also happy when they saw their children having fats in entire body. Yah right they are very cute but that is not healthy anymore. Some have a payday loans just to give the foods that their children wants. I know there is nothing wrong with this because I am a mother too and I am so very happy every time I saw my children eating very hard. But I always discipline them to have control in eating.
"Cute!", this is the word I can hear every time I saw a overweight children. Some parents are also happy when they saw their children having fats in entire body. Yah right they are very cute but that is not healthy anymore. Some have a payday loans just to give the foods that their children wants. I know there is nothing wrong with this because I am a mother too and I am so very happy every time I saw my children eating very hard. But I always discipline them to have control in eating.
what do you know about prices in louisville! do you live there? i had to create a stupid account just to yell at you for being dissing my town, you're just jealous!! stop judging things you don't know anything about!
Ordinarily, there would be no reason to pay any attention to Louisville, CO. However, Louisville CO is getting some attention these days because it got the top spot in the list of CNN Money.com Best Cities to live in. A small mountain town with population of less than 20,000, straight out of South Park, median family income is nearly twice the national average – because only rich people can afford to live in mountain towns like Louisville, Colorado. At any rate, the list it tops tends to favor small towns (criteria being a population of 50,000 or less – hardly small) over cities. From the description of Louisville CO, it might be worth some easy payday loans to move there.
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