Our first lady, Michelle Obama, put a national face to a national problem when she took on the childhood obesity crisis. Unfortunately, the problem had become so severe that more than 25 percent of our children were already overweight. Why did this happen? The obesity epidemic is not isolated to children. More than 30 percent of adults are obese. In other words, no one is immune from this health crisis. The consequences of obesity are among our top health problems: heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and cancer.
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