There are just not enough facepalms online for this gobbledegook.
Approximately 17% (or 12.7 million) of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years had obesity.
The prevalence of obesity among children aged 2 to 5 years decreased significantly from 13.9% in 2003-2004 to 8.4% in 2011-2012.
There are significant racial and age disparities in obesity prevalence among children and adolescents. In 2011-2012, obesity prevalence was higher among Hispanics (22.4%) and non-Hispanic black youth (20.2%) than non-Hispanic white youth (14.1%). The prevalence of obesity was lower in non-Hispanic Asian youth (8.6%) than in youth who were non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black or Hispanic.
In 2011-2012, 8.4% of 2- to 5-year-olds had obesity compared with 17.7% of 6- to 11-year-olds and 20.5% of 12- to 19-year-olds.
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"The Obesity Crisis in America"
Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S.
Surgeon General
U.S. Public Health Service
Acting Assistant Secretary for Health
Department of Health and Human Services
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But the bad news is that an unprecedented number of children are carrying excess body weight. That excess weight significantly increases our kids’ risk factors for a range of health problems, including diabetes, heart disease, asthma, and emotional and mental health problems.
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As usual, they are trying to have it both ways. So which is it? Are our kids malnourished or obese?
With food stamps and 3-4 free meals at school how can they be hungry? FAT yes as the food is not nutritious, but fat making carb calories. Or the food is unfit to eat Mooch’s SLOP.
Another fifty pound bag of wet horse hsit from 0.
And yet Mooshell says Anericans are sooooooo fat
No they don’t Barry. They get two free meals a day at school.
Don’t tell Michelle. She thinks they’re all eating like kings.
I’m kind of astounded that the parents wouldn’t make an effort to be sure they made their stamps last through the month.
Part of the problem might be ... if they spend all their money on pre-packaged convenient foods ... yes, that stuff is expensive.
One of my black co-workers awhile back said that one of her nieces was asked to bring a store-bought cake or ice cream to a family gathering. “She’s 25 years old and got five kids.”
“and she can’t cook?”
“Cook1 @#$, no. She always feeds them @#$% out of the microwave.”
People don’t cook anymore because no one teaches them. If Mom or Grandma can’t, there are no Home Ec teachers to help anymore.