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Obesity Takes a Heavy Toll on Youth Worldwide |
| Section: LIFE / HEALTH |
| Author: Lidia Wasowicz |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 1,781 Words, 11,830 Characters |
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For youngsters of yore, who worked off home-cooked calories while skipping rope, climbing trees, or chasing butterflies, keeping obesity at bay was, literally, child's play. For today's tykes and teens, whose claim to physical activity may amount to no more than catching fast food on the run, severe overweight looms large as a health-crushing threat.
Increasingly, the world's oldest metabolic disorder--recorded as early as the Stone Age--affects ever-younger age groups, placing a heavy strain on still-growing hearts, lungs, and bones and greasing the way toward cardiovascular disease, asthma, osteoporosis, diabetes, cancer, and a host of other, potentially deadly ailments.
In the United States, where excess poundage weighs down 15 percent of children ages five to nineteen, the incide...
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...verabundance of appealing, low-cost, high-fat foods is widely available, a world where machines perform most of the tasks that used to require human energy expenditure, where electronics entrance us into long hours of sedentary activity," Ikeda concluded. "As adults, we must assume the responsibility for this situation and make every effort to change it."
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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