Children's Health & Fitness ? Childhood Obesity Is ... - Posterous

May 23rd, 2012 by Len Saunders

From The Indy Star?..

I read a new childhood obesity study that arrived in the office mail the other day more as a parent than a journalist, curious about the growing epidemic among this nation?s alarmingly growing children. Although it?s hard to imagine my son suffering from the problem ? he?s a 15-month-old blaze of perpetual motion from sunrise to sunset ? I also know this is an issue no parent should take lightly.

It?s an issue the nation as a whole should take seriously, in fact, as it affects everything from medical bills to school success rates to economic growth. But it?s no surprise that the new report ? from Indiana University?s Center for Evaluation & Education Policy ? sends a particular warning flare to Hoosiers, as so many health-related reports do.

?Despite the attention focused on the issue at both the state and federal level, the childhood obesity epidemic has worsened,? the report says, adding that ?Indiana has lost ground nationally in the fight.?

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