Childhood obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions in the United States with the rate of obesity among children in California aged 6 to eighteen at nearly 20 percent. Is it that kids have become too sedentary--too many video games, too much TV, not enough time playing outside? Is it simply bad eating habits? Is it the oversized restaurant portions, the abundance of sugary soft drinks and the preponderance of sugar in processed foods? Or is it the parents who have become overindulgent or not setting and sticking to rules for growing up healthy?
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