Extreme Obesity on Children and Adolescents are Growing
Based on the record of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 17% or 12.5 million of kids and young adults aged between 2-19 years are suffering from obesity, as opposed to just being overweight.
“Not only do we have a higher percentage of kids who are obese but a higher percentage of children who are severely obese,” said Dr. Garry Sigman, director of adolescent medicine and associate professor of pediatrics at Loyola University Medical Center near Chicago, in an interview with Reuters.
(Reuters) – The case of a 219-pound 8-year-old boy taken from his mother for health reasons spotlights a problem that has almost tripled in the U.S. in the last 30 years — cases of extreme child obesity.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 17 percent or 12.5 million of children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years are obese, as opposed to merely overweight.
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