Growing Up Large. / John DeMont.
by Demont, John; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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High School - old - to delete | REF SIRS 2003 Fam36 (Browse shelf) | Available |
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
Originally Published: Growing Up Large, Aug. 5, 2002; pp. 20-26.
"According to a recently released study, 33 per cent of Canadian boys were overweight in 1996--triple the rate in 1981--while the number of overweight girls swelled to 27 per cent from 13 per cent. The ranks of obese children--the kids truly in danger of getting adult-type diseases before they stop believing in Santa Claus--have soared even more dramatically: 10 per cent of boys and nine per cent of girls are now considered obese, generally defined as being at least 20 per cent above ideal body weight." (MACLEAN'S) This article discusses the surge in obesity in children in Canada and in most countries of the developed world, and offers ways to address the problem.
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