Child Obesity Rate Levels Off

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What is the purpose of that pic? Am I supposed to look at that kid and go ewwww? Is that the intended effect?

If you looked at the picture and didn't go ewwww, here's another one here that should make you go ewwww:

Childhood obesity rates at a stand still

Researchers have come out and stated that for the first time in 45 years, the childhood obesity rate in the U.S. has not risen.

The author of the new study, Cynthia Ogden of the National Center for Health Statistics stated that the childhood obesity rates stayed the same in all groups, including boys and girls, whites, African Americans, Mexican Americans, etc.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated in the Journal of the American Medical Association that the childhood obesity levels may have now peaked.

The numbers shot up from 5% of teens being overweight in the 1960s, to 16% in 1999.

The latest numbers released in the study show no gain at all among the rates for children in the U.S.

Researchers looked at more than 8,000 children in the national health survey.

Adolescents between 12 and 19 were more likely to be overweight and obese compared to kids aged 2 to 5.