| Article: | Obesity is a problem weighing on children Since 1980, the percentage of overweight children in America has nearly doubled and the percentage of overweight adolescents has nearly tripled.
Today, 13 percent of all children and 14 percent of all adolescents are overweight, and 80 percent of them will become overweight adults.
Considering those statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it appears many of America's kids are fat and getting fatter. |