Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Report on Obesity in America
beSpacific (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
"The country will never be able to contain rates of chronic diseases and health care costs until we find ways...
Adult obesity rates
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U.S. Schools Do A Little Better Trimming Junk Food
Health - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
... in an e-mailed update, available The CDC estimates that 16 percent of U.S. children and young adults aged 2 to 19 are obese. Obesity raises the risk for heart disease, diabetes and asthma and obese children are very likely to remain obese as adults.Federal and state governments have asked schools to help control how much access students have to junk food that can add calories...