40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.
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.
Nutrition isn't the only problem; our children also aren't getting enough exercise.
Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.
Children are not children. They are just younger people.
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.