Word: overweighting
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...with a Filipina girl, I feel sick," says 19-year-old Paul Calumpiano, who is half-American. "But I can do nothing but throw stares at the man's back." Others, though, have no choice but to return to the bars teeming with retired American postal workers and overweight German laborers. Mixed-race boys can find work as deejays, bouncers or, if they're tall, play for a local basketball team...
...long suspected, however, that changes in America's snacking habits go a long way toward explaining why young people in the U.S. have grown so fat over the past 30 years. Just last month the Centers for Disease Control reported that 13% of children ages 6 to 11 are overweight, up from 11% in the early 1990s and 4% in the 1960s...
...That's right, kids of America. You're getting fatter every time we look at you. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, as of 1999, 13 percent of kids ages 6 to 11 were overweight, up from 11 percent during the last survey period, between 1988 and 1994. A whopping 14 percent - up from a previous 11 percent - of teens are now considered overweight...
...What can parents of overweight kids do to help...
...Rosen: Parents are very frustrated. It's very challenging to have an overweight adolescent. Parents have a lot of fears about telling a kid they need to lose weight - they worry it will push a child into an eating disorder. We also have a strong fat-acceptance movement in the United States, and some parents worry that pushing kids to lose weight means their kid will think they're not good enough, or not loved because of their weight...