Unhealthy pressures boost child obesity
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Unhealthy pressures boost child obesity
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A series of studies indicate U.S. childhood obesity is due to a host of unhealthy pressures including fast food, TV advertising and less school gym.
The special supplement published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine includes a collection of evidence produced by researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois at Chicago on factors that contribute to the escalating rates of childhood obesity.
Among the factors linked to childhood obesity are: soft drinks available in school, diminishing school physical education classes, minority students attending school with less varsity sports, low-income neighborhoods having a higher proportion of their restaurants serving fast food, low-income neighborhoods having fewer supermarkets in which to buy groceries and television ads steering children to spend their money on junk food.
"Research is showing us that we have in our schools and communities a perfect storm that will continue to feed the childhood obesity epidemic until we adopt policies that improve the health of our communities and our kids," Frank Chaloupka, head of the University of Illinois at Chicago research team, said in a statement.
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