Word: overweightness
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...would like to learn. Recent medical research shows that the obesity epidemic both worldwide and in the United States now affects not only the adult population, but also youths. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the share of youths between ages six and 19 who are overweight has more than tripled in the past 25 years. The STRENGTH program is designed to combat this trend of increased childhood obesity, which predisposes youths to develop severe health problems, including type-2 diabetes. There are currently 300 children at BMC who are deemed at high risk for developing type...
...inferiority play out on South Beach. Bears fans were the in-your-face, we're-a-real-city crowd whenever they spotted the softer, royal blue clusters of Colts backers. I even heard one Chicagoan hurl the "redneck" epithet. (Miamians, meanwhile, just got a good laugh watching pale, overweight Midwesterners trying to swagger on Ocean Drive...
...hard to think of some new gimmick in dieting." Have no fear. Each year as the New Year's resolution season draws near, the publishing industry dreams up novel weight-loss schemes to entice the ever plumper U.S. population, nearly two-thirds of which is overweight. The new crop of diet books recommends everything from treating meals as mood medicine to eating dinner for breakfast. Here's a sampler. The Best Life Diet By Bob Greene...
These additional calories, coupled with inadequate amounts of exercise, lead to an average of an extra 10 pounds of body weight for all youth and 58 pounds for those who are overweight...
...results reveal that, overall, children and teens consume between 110 and 165 excess calories on average per day, while overweight and obese youth have a caloric intake between 700 and 1000 calories more than necessary each...