Nearly one-third of children age 10 to 17 in the United States were overweight as of 2007, and roughly half of those kids qualified as obese, a new survey shows. Obesity rates rose in 36 states since the last sampling in 2003, according in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicince. Mississippi had the highest obesity rate in this age group at nearly 22 percent in 2007; Oregon had the lowest at 9.6 percent. South Carolina on the other hand, saw its childhood obesity rate drop from 19 percent to 15 percent.
Its obvious that obesity is a big problem in the United States because we are so spoiled and we don't even realize how it is effecting us. We need to get a handle on this situation as soon as possible because if we dont then the rates we continue to grow and people can get very sick, and it can cause death. We all need to watch our eating habbits and excersize regularly and teach younger ones the same pattern so they will grow up doing what they did as a child.
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