The U.S. will spend over $1 billion on nutrition education for school children. Despite that, obesity problems are steadily increasing.
"...an Associated Press review of scientific studies examining 57 such programs found mostly failure. Just four showed any real success in changing the way children eat – or any promise as weapons against the growing epidemic of childhood obesity."
National obesity rates among children ages 6- to 11-years old have increased to nearly five times what they were in the 1970s, and tripled among teenagers. Most doctors agree that, though childhood obesity programs often target schools, parents have the biggest influence over what their kids eat.
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