Medical X-Press – Zen Vuong
About 17 percent of children in the United States are obese, according to federal health statistics. That’s a sobering statistic for parents to ponder as September marks National Childhood Obesity Month. “One in five children in the U.S. enter school overweight or obese. Many kindergarteners with normal weight end up gaining too much weight during elementary school,” said Ashlesha Datar, a senior economist and director of the Program for Children and Families at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. (more)