In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.
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The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it.
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.
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.
How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?
In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.
This country must break the cycle of childhood obesity. Unless we reverse course, this epidemic will continue to put more of our children and the future of our nation at risk.
Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.
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