No. Do this exactly:
Go to a local donut shop, and look at all the people there, most of the children are fat.
Go to a local McDonald's shop, and look at the kids in the Play Place, the kids are fat.
Look in the Mirror, you are probably fat too, for asking that question. You are worried that the obesity problem might include you too, but you wanted to ask a random person on the internet. How low modern society has made my fellow human beings? It saddens me.
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a good hypothesis for childhood obesity
your mom is
an escalating epidemic
Obesity and diabetes (both are linked together)
You can find statistics about childhood obesity online from the CDC website. Childhood obesity is currently found in over 17% of the adolescent population, which is significantly higher than a generation ago.
No. Restaurants are there to sell food. They are businesses. The people responsible for childhood obesity are the parents and the children.
Childhood obesity is on the rise in the United states.
It is in the USA of course, due to our epidemic of obesity.
The young fat
Obesity in childhood is likely to carry on in adolescence and adulthood. Obesity is a bad thing, so it's good to get into non-obese mode early in life.
The state that has the controversial childhood obesity ads is Georgia. The ads are being phased out because of the objection of the parents of obese children.