The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.
For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time.
I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?
There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans. . . weighs as much as the other two.
The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.