Since the nineteen eighties, obesity has become an epidemic in the United States. Statistics show that if a parent is considered obese, the children of that family have a sixty percent greater chance of becoming obese. Conversely, if a child is obese by the time he or she is five to seven years old, the pattern can be set resulting in obesity affecting the entire life according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Are the causes genetic?
Genes play a small part in the broader context in the cause of obesity. Child obesity can be traced to many family and societal norms of present day America. With tighter budgets in the schools today many physical education classes and sports programs have been curtailed
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