Feb

16

Topic: Childhood Obesity News - Special Report: Child Obesity - WTRF

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Kids are getting all kinds of ailments because they eat badly and don’t run around in the fresh air nearly enough. The solutions are at the same time simple, yet hard to make happen. Kids are getting things more commonly found in adults like diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and conditions that haven’t even been studied yet. Romano said, âRecently, we’re seeing something called fatty liver, where children are getting fatty infiltrations of the liver. In the battle to get kids to eat better and run more, Dr. Playgrounds stand silent in cold, winter weather, but Matz says itâs wrong that state funding cuts have led to less school exercise, in favor of high impact class work like math and reading. Read Childhood Obesity

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