Pediatric Obesity

100% childhood obesity by 2044?

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 3rd, 2005

Advertisements on television and in newspapers consistently hype the latest diet fads. News reports comment on the latest research about the negative effects of obesity on Americans. The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports promotes the healthy effects of exercise.

Yet, even with these and other efforts, the rate of increase in overweight and obese Americans continues to climb. According to University of Missouri-Columbia biomedical researchers Frank Booth and Simon Lees, every U.S. child and adult will be obese by 2044 and 2058, respectively, if the current progressive rise continues.

"If all the work we are doing to promote physical...

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