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TRICARE Agrees: Childhood Obesity is a Big Deal - eMilitary.org- Topic: Childhood Obesity News
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TRICARE has partnered with the United States Department of Health and Human Services to help spearhead the effort to raise awareness among military families as well as the general public. The initiative is highlighted during Children’s Health Month, but encouraging children to stay active, have healthy eating habits, and make healthy choices is a long term commitment. Overweight and obese kids are in jeopardy of developing medical problems that affect their present and future health and quality of life. Overweight or obese children may tend to mature earlier and may be taller and more sexually mature than their peers, raising expectations that they should act as old as they look, not as old as they are; overweight girls may have irregular menstrual cycles and fertility problems in adulthood. Read Childhood Obesity
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