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According to some experts changing the lifestyle can change the obesity rate in the United States; there are approximately two-thirds of adults that are overweight or obese and about one-fifth of America’s children.
Experts are urging parents to change how their children live, believing obesity has become a health crisis in this country. They believe banning television in children’s rooms is one way of changing a child’s level of activity. They also believe that there should be a tax placed on soda containing sugar.
Each year the obesity epidemic is said to cost the United States billions of dollars and it also means that each generation of Americans could have a shorter life span with unhealthy weight gain. I mean, if you are going to eat gourmet cookies or Pecan Praline, make them the healthy kind. If you are going to buy cookies or make homemade cookies or gourmet cookies, etc then use organic flour and organic sugar etc and go easy on the butter. There is a healthy way to make these types of foods.
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is aiming to cut childhood obesity dramatically by the year 2015 and have outlined approximately two dozen steps that can be taken to lessen children’s weight gain. These steps include not having televisions in children’s rooms, and making it easier for people to purchase fresh foods.