April 22, 2007

Numbers Game: Answer

20,500,000: The number of overweight and obese children in the United States.

That's right. Twenty-five percent of children ages 2 - 19 in the United States are clinically overweight or obese.

In 1975, approximately 10,000,000 (or 12.5%) of children ages 2 - 19 fell into these two categories.

Let's hope our current number won't double by 2035....

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