How Does Teenage Obesity Impact Your Child?

Unless we have been living with our heads in the sand, it is becoming more and more difficult to ignore the talk of the teenage obesity epidemic that is purportedly taking over our communities. Even though it is quite possible your family has not been affected, you may have friends or relatives who have been afflicted. Sounds scary, huh?Beyond all the scare tactics we hear in the news today, for some families, teenage obesity is becoming quite a challenge. In some instances, genetics plays a large part in how our bodies develop throughout our teenage years. But in other instances, it is the habits we are allowed to develop that determine what we see when we look in the mirror or walk past that reflective pane glass in the mall. Body image

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