Sentences with phrase «turning on childhood obesity»

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The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity reports that over half of obese children become overweight children by age two, while one in five children are obese by the time they turn six.

As it turns out, health problems such as childhood diabetes, obesity, bowel disease, osteoporosis, heart disease, cataracts, colic, ear infections, hyperactivity, and cancer, on the rise in both children and adults, can be strongly linked to infant feeding choices.

Not surprisingly, reliance on less nutritious foods and limited physical activity have resulted in an explosion of childhood obesity which has, in turn, led to health impairments that can have devastating lifetime effects (diabetes, hypertension, asthma, anxiety, and hyperactivity).