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Topic: Childhood Obesity News - Children’s diet should be on many resolution lists - Eudora News

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As we make our New Yearâs resolutions for 2008, consider not only our own health, wellness and body conditioning, but those of our children, for which we are responsible. Four-year-old girls today are six times more likely to have a body mass index of 30 or more than they were 20 years ago, says an article by the Society for Womenâs Health Research in which it ranks its top womenâs health stories for 2007. The findings point to recent changes in childrenâs environment and lifestyles, which merit monitoring, further research, and action, given the health risks associated with adulthood obesity such as increased risks for cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes. This is the largest amount of private money ever spent to reduce the public health problem of Americaâs children eating more junk food, exercising less and getting heavier. Risa Lavisso-Mourey, president and CEO of this Foundation, states âIf we donât turn this epidemic around and halt the rise in childhood obesity, we are going to have the first generation of kids who actually are sicker and die younger than their parents. Read Childhood Obesity

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