Healthbeat: Family fitness is cure for child obesity

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Healthbeat: Family fitness is cure for child obesity

Jim Hlavacek

Updated: Sep 10, 2012, 4:30 AM

Published: Sep 9, 2012, 2:12 AM

Childhood obesity has increased more than fourfold among those ages 6 to 11. More than 23 million children and teenagers in the United States, ages two to 19, are obese or overweight. This epidemic puts nearly one-third of American children at risk for Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.

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Ronda Rich

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Published: Apr 8, 2025, 10:33 PM

Most admire Franklin D. Roosevelt, a crafty, pleasant, get-it-done type of President. He had been raised as an only child to his mother and father, though he had step-siblings. He was tremendously spoiled, but not in the way that turned him mean.

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