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Childhood Obesity Epidemic a Long-Term Challenge
Date:9/20/2007

Surgeon General's report came out, and just now, there's talk about the tide turning on cigarette smoking," he observed. "Obesity's perhaps going to take that long to get the tide turned."

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For more on childhood obesity, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.



SOURCES: Henry C. McGill Jr., M.D., senior scientist emeritus, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas; James S. Marks, M.D., M.P.H., senior vice president, director, health group, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J.; Feb. 24, 1999, May 5, 2004, and April 25, 2005, Journal of the American Medical Association; May 5, 2006, British Medical Journal


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