According to data released from National Health and Nutrition Survey, about a third of U.S. teens, some 25 million are overweight, the highest number ever recorded. Want to see a really scary stat? 33.6% of children and teens, ages 2 to 19, were overweight or at risk of becoming so in 2004, up from 28.2% in 2000. Researchers and social scientists are worried with such a high number of children and teens overweight now, what will happen will happen to them when they become adults? I'd imagine a great deal of health problems like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer, not exactly pretty picture.
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