Get our kids off the couch and outside. When you feed them fast food, you're risking their lives. More than one-third of adults have become obese, and Children between the ages of 2 to 5 years old were twice as likely to be obese as of 2008 as they were in the late 1970s. As of 2008, slightly over 10 percent of 2- to 5-year-olds were obese, compared to just 5 percent in the 1976 to 1980 data. During the same period, the obesity rate in children from 6 to 11 increased from about 6 to 20 percent. Middle and high school student's rate of obesity increased in a similar fashion, from 5 to just over 18 percent.
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