Conquering Childhood Obesity For Dummies
Chapter One
Looking for Answers
In This Chapter
* Nailing down the big causes of childhood obesity
* Changing your family's way of life
* Working through rough patches
If you've picked up this book and have made it to Chapter 1, we assume
that you're interested in the topic of managing childhood obesity either on
a personal or professional level. If you have kids or you work with kids (heck,
if you see kids), you know that children these days are heavier than ever.
Your kids' friends (and your friends' kids) are bigger, heavier, and less
healthy than children were even 10 or 15 years ago. What's going on in this
world that's causing this kind of weight gain?
Well, nothing's going on throughout the world. Childhood obesity (and obesity
in general) affects wealthy, industrialized nations. The adult populations
in third-world countries aren't worried about the ever-increasing size of their
pants, nor are they concerned that their children are becoming too he ... read full excerpt from Conquering Childhood Obesity For Dummies ebook
