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According to a recent report from the Trust for America’s Health, the national percentage of overweight teens and children has more than doubled during the last 30 years. And, more than one-third of children ages 10-17 are obese or overweight.
Other facts included in the report, “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future,” are just as troubling.
Nationwide, less than one-third of all children ages 6-17 engage in vigorous activity, defined as at least 20 minutes of physical activity that makes the child sweat and breathe hard.
Only about 9.5 percent of high school students eat more than two servings of fruits and vegetables a day. (Five or more servings are recommended for good health.)
At least one out of every five U.S. teenagers has abnormal cholesterol levels.
Two million adolescents ages 12-19 have pre-diabetes.
Overweight and obesity is a problem that will follow our children into adulthood. According to the report: Children who are obese after the age of 6 are 50 percent more likely to be obese as adults.
Among children who were overweight at ages 10-15, 80 percent were obese at age 25.
Children who are obese are more than twice as likely to die before age 55 than children whose BMI is in the normal range.
The number of fat cells a person has is determined by late adolescence; so although overweight and obese children can later lose weight, they do not lose the extra fat cells
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