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Ruffo takes childhood obesity mainstream - Peninsula Gateway(Childhood Obesity News)

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And it’s a pretty clear sign that when a former city council member, Frank Ruffo, makes a plea to his former colleagues at city hall to help fight childhood obesity as he did Monday night we have a problem. Piscatella is the Gig Harbor author and lecturer who has been spreading the word about childhood obesity to Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, health professionals, television talk shows and anybody else who will listen. And up to to 50 percent of new cases of Type 2 diabetes come from children between the ages of 9 and 19, most of those linked to obesity. Kids don’t ride bikes to school or walk to the park as much as they used to, partly because of societal violence and also because “screen time” computers, video games or television has dramatically increased. Read Childhood Obesity

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