Obesity is dangerous enough with adults, but the health problems of an obese child can be even more frightening because they are showing up much earlier in life. What used to be considered almost exclusively the health problems of middle age are now becoming very common in younger children and teens. If a child has [...]
Child Obesity
There’s considerable hype in the news about the incidence of childhood obesity and the risks. As usual, scare stories abound with calls for government intervention and/or large-scale social changes. But apart from the over-the-top reactions, there are some basic facts that remain. With the increase in the availability and lower cost of food in Western [...]
