This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
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The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.
Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.
Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.
Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.
There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.
Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.
Tackling childhood obesity is key.
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