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What did your child eat for lunch today? - FinalCall.com- Topic: Childhood Obesity News

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Unless you made your child’s lunch or live in one of the more affluent areas that offer vegetarian choices, chances are your children were treated to a full course of high fat, high cholesterol and high calories with little fiber. But for the most part schools don’t have the money to spend on good nutrition,” she told The Final Call . While young Tyrone is not overweight, a diet of just pizza and other high fat, high caloric foods without the right amount of physical activity could easily usher him into obesity. Over the last 20 years, obesity rates have tripled in children and adolescents, and only two percent of children eat a healthy diet, according to Agriculture Department nutrition recommendations. Read Childhood Obesity

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