Kudos to Time Magazine for releasing the most comprehensive article on childhood obesity we have seen.
Obesity statistics have doubled in the last two decades.
- Due to obesity, over one-third of our nation’s children are expected to develop Type II Diabetes before adulthood.
- 300,000 obesity-related deaths occur annually.
- Obesity-related surgeries have tripled among children in the U.S. from 1996 to 2003.
- Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in our country…and it continues to steadily rise 5% with each passing year and there is no indication that this trend will slow down.
- A person who is 25 and obese today and remains obese until he/she is 65, will require $179,000, on average, more in health care costs than someone who is not obese.
- $147 billion is spent annually on obesity-related health care costs in the U.S. alone.
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MSNBC (August 6, 2008): Will All Americans Be Fat in 40 years?
AP: Mississippi remains most obese state, CDC reports
USA TODAY: Report pleads for a united front against childhood obesity
CBS NEWS: Childhood Obesity A Serious Problem
CDC: Childhood Overweight
MAYO CLINIC: Childhood Obesity
FUTURE OF CHILDREN: Childhood Obesity
WIKIPEDIA: Childhood Obesity
CHICAGO SUN TIMES: Childhood Obesity stabilizes?
Gulf Daily News: Childhood obesity 'a growing threat'
ENC TODAY: Raising awareness for childhood obesity
BLOGS
Familys.comHealth Advice
New York Times: Does Obesity Kill?
Wall Street Journal: Childhood Obesity: Bad, but Not Getting Worse
Variety: Army Archerd
BOOKS
Understanding Childhood Obesity