The Emporia Gazette – Jessie Wagoner
Childhood obesity is a nationwide epidemic, and Emporia children are not immune from the impact. Bhavini Gopaldas, physician assistant with Flint Hills Community Health Center, said childhood obesity is common — 21 – 24 percent of American children as a whole are overweight. “The obesity epidemic, as they call it, is the most prevalent nutritional disorder we see among young children,” Gopaldas said. “I don’t see a lot of underweight children, but I do see a lot of obese children.” (more)