OBESITY

CHILDHOOD STATISTICS

1 IN 3

children and adolescents(ages 2-19)

ARE OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE

and almost NONE meet recommended healthy diet and physical activity amount

An estimated

12.5 MILLION

children (ages 5 years or younger), spend

33 HOURS/WEEK

in child care settings and consume nearly all of their daily colories.

OBESITY IS LINKED TO MORE CHRONIC CONDITIONS THAN:

Smoking

Poverty

Drinking

increasing the risk of more than 20 preventable diseases, including sleep apnea, asthma, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, high blood pressure and high-cholesterol stroke.

RISK FACTORS

Children in their early teens who are obese and who have high triglyceride levels have arteries similar to those of 45-year olds.

Obese children as young as age 3 show indicators for developing heart disease later in life.

Children who are overweight from the ages of 7 to 13 may develop heart disease as early as age 25.

Obese children are twice as likely to die before age 55 than their slimmer peers.

FRENCH FRIES

are the most common vegetable that childen eat, comprising

25%

of their vegetable intake.

JUICE

(which may lack important fibre found in whole fruit) makes up

40%

of children's daily fruit intake.

40% - 50% OF TODDLERS

watch more television than is recommended.