Penn State News – Staff Writer
In the United States, the percentage of children and adolescents with obesity has more than tripled since 1970. Today, approximately one in five school-aged children (ages 6 to 19) is obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—and that figure doesn’t include children who are considered merely overweight and not obese. https://news.psu.edu/story/562180/2019/03/07/medical-minute-small-changes-can-go-far-preventing-childhood-obesity