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Archive Home > 2007 > May > 03 > Legislature should support effort to combat childhood obesity

Legislature should support effort to combat childhood obesity

By John Valley / The Bulletin
May 3, 2007

Today, compared with 1980, more than twice as many children - and almost three times as many teens - are overweight. Overweight children and adolescents have about a 70 percent chance of becoming overweight adults, which puts them at great risk for heart disease. Obesity is on track to become....

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