Poor Choices, Lack of Parental Awareness Contribute to Childhood.... Julie Sevrens Lyons.
by Lyons, Julie Sevrens; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 32Family. Publisher: San Jose Mercury News, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Americans -- Attitudes | Children -- Health and hygiene | Children -- Nutrition | Convenience foods | Food industry and trade | Obesity in adolescence | Obesity in children | Overweight children | Parent and childDDC classification: 050 Summary: "America's children are getting fat--so fat that they may grow up to be the unhealthiest generation in decades. The alarm over childhood obesity rang in 2002. New data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed that 15.5 percent of children were seriously overweight and 15 percent more were at risk of becoming so. That was triple the rate of 20 years earlier." (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) This article reveals the conclusion reached by "nutritionists and public health officials about the 9 million overweight and 9 million at-risk youths: Children were getting less exercise than ever, just as the food industry was overwhelming time-pressed families with inexpensive, high-calorie convenience foods, snacks and sodas."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Poor Choices, Lack of Parental Awareness Contribute to Childhood..., March 10, 2004; pp. n.p..
"America's children are getting fat--so fat that they may grow up to be the unhealthiest generation in decades. The alarm over childhood obesity rang in 2002. New data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed that 15.5 percent of children were seriously overweight and 15 percent more were at risk of becoming so. That was triple the rate of 20 years earlier." (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) This article reveals the conclusion reached by "nutritionists and public health officials about the 9 million overweight and 9 million at-risk youths: Children were getting less exercise than ever, just as the food industry was overwhelming time-pressed families with inexpensive, high-calorie convenience foods, snacks and sodas."
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