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Considering the fact that 1 out of 6 youngsters in the U.S. is overweight, you'd think that any increase in physical activity for kids has got to be a good thing. But that isn't necessarily so. It's true that the earlier in life you make running, jumping, swimming and other physical activities a regular part of your daily routine, the healthier you'll be--provided that you keep it up as an adult. But the enormous boom over the past few years in soccer, gymnastics and other highly competitive sports for children has a dark side...
...Proportion of Americans who are overweight or obese...
...million Estimated number of undernourished people in the world 1 billion Estimated number of people who are overweight, due to increasingly sedentary lifestyles and changing eating habits...
...time, figures from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) not only showed that the incidence of child obesity had doubled in the U.S. since 1980, they revealed that Arkansas had one of the highest rates in the nation: 20.9% of the state's youngsters were overweight while another 17% fell into the borderline "at risk" category. Nationally the figures were 17% and 13%, respectively. Originally envisioned as a new kind of grade on the child's report card, Arkansas's program was revised to provide the information in a more discreet and sensitive way - through confidential letters to parents that...
...later Huckabee and state Surgeon General Joseph Thompson announced that child obesity, while still a big fat problem, no longer appears to be on the rise in Arkansas. Reams of data collected from 371,082 students in some 1,100 schools showed that the number of students in the overweight category was holding steady or dropping slightly from 20.9% in the 2003-04 school year to 20.4% last school year. "This is not the destination, this is a turning point," said Huckabee, who praised Arkansas parents for having "overwhelmingly responded positively" to the feedback from schools...