The Alarming Numbers No One Can Ignore Twenty percent of American children are obese. Nearly 40% of teenagers are overweight or obese. Almost 10% are severely obese. Those aren’t fringe statistics. They come from a study analyzing more than six million children. That’s not a rounding error. That’s a generation. And when the CDC says four out of ten children have at least one chronic condition, we are no longer talking about isolated cases. We are talking about a systemic failure. This is not about shaming kids. It’s not about blaming parents. It’s about asking a hard question: How did the richest country in the history of the world raise the sickest generation of children? Ultra-Processed America The Make America…
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