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apparently healthy children have 3 or more risk factors for heart disease

• Overweight children have inflammatory signs which predict future heart disease and diabetes

• Between 34% and 65% of five year-old girls have ideas about dieting (5 year-olds. Dieting.)

• Dieting is the leading precursor to eating disorders and later obesity

• Irregular exercise, appetite suppressants, laxative use, vomiting, and binge eating predict excess weight gain

• Dieting girls have over three times the risk of obesity compared with non-dieters

• The psychological stress and social stigma of being overweight may be as damaging as the health effects

• The more overweight kindergarten and first grade children are, the lower their math and reading performance — the foundation for later academic underachievement

• If current trends continue, this generation of American children will grow up to be the most obese adults in U.S. history

• Long-term results of childhood obesity:

–Type 2 Diabetes

–Asthma

–Arthritis

–Liver disease

–Bowel cancer

–Sleep apnea

–Heart disease

–Lung disease

–Intestinal disorders

–Bone and joint complications

• The incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in children and adolescents has increased 500% in the past decade

The prime symptom of all these terrible outcomes is childhood obesity. Childhood obesity confronts one in six of our children. And

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