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Kids Unhealthy Too
Why So Unhealthy?
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Children Are Unhealthy Too!
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Cancer kills more children
than any other disease, with more than 7,000 new cases of childhood
cancer every year |
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1 of 2 children born today
will develop heart disease |
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1 in 4 children is obese |
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Obesity has doubled in the
last 20 years |
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Nearly 50% of obese
adolescents remain obese as adults |
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By age 3, children have
fatty deposits in their arteries |
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By age 12, 70% have
developed the beginning stages of hardening of the arteries |
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5% - 7% of school age
children are diagnosed as ADHD |
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More than 5 million
children have asthma, up 232% in the last 40 years |
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