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Super-sized Kids : How to Rescue Your Child from the Obesity Threat by Walt Larimore, Sherri Flynt, Steve Halliday, Walter L. Larimore is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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SuperSized Kids shows how the mushrooming childhood obesity epidemic is destroying children's lives, draining family resources and pushing America dangerously close to a total health care collapse -- but also explains, step by step, how parents can work to avert the coming crisis by taking control of the weight challenges facing every member of their family. For the first time in American history, a new epidemic is killing our kids. In 1960, only 4 percent of American children were considered obese. That number has skyrocketed to 15 percent today and is almost triple that number in certain ethnic groups. Staggering; is the word the U.S. Surgeon General uses to describe the potential health care costs of childhood obesity. We are seeing Generation Y growing into Generation XL, he declares. The most common health problem facing U.S. children today is being overweight -- a condition robbing kids of both their quality and quantity of life. Medical problems that doctors once saw only in adults aged 50 or older are now striking heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, asthma, joint problems, arthritis. One in three children born in 2000 is expected to develop Type 2 diabetes, with the

Author

Walt Larimore, Sherri Flynt, Steve Halliday, Walter L. Larimore

Publisher

New York: Center Street

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780446694742

Subjects

Medical, Medicine