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Tackling childhood obesity is key.

Obesity in children is growing out of control. A big part of this is economic. Fake foods are more affordable. It's enticing people to eat more because they think they're saving money when they're really just buying heart disease.

The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

Health is very important to me.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

Nutrition isn't the only problem; our children also aren't getting enough exercise.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

It makes me sound like a domestic freak, but I care very much about my kids' nutrition.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.