September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month

September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. In the last forty years, the USA rates of obesity have been affecting the younger members of the population in a way that is nothing short of alarming. Obesity in children has been increasing in quadruples among children aged six to eleven. In the United States over twenty three million children and teenagers aged two to nineteen are overweight or obese. These statistics are classified as being in epidemic proportions, putting almost a third of American children at risk for diabetes type 2, stroke, heart disease and high blood pressure, …read more