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Students Name: Professor`s Name: Course: Date: What should be done to solve the child-obesity epidemic? It could be more serious than you ever imagined. Child-obesity in America is a real epidemic that faces the children from all the socio-economic classes. The Center for Disease Control has found that about thirty two percent of the children and adolescents are overweight; this translates to twenty five million kids are obese as noted by ( Hellmich, USA Today, First lady says: `Let`s move` on child obesity). She further observed that obesity has a huge impact on the life expectancy of the next generation with a study conducted in 2005 finding that kids may have their lives two to five years shorter than that of their parents because of obesity. Obesity predisposes our kids to the types of diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol levels which lead to cardiovascular diseases. In her article ( Hellmich) notes that the first lady laments that according to government data, a weight-related medical bill costs the country a whooping $147 billion annual. This epidemic surely calls for concerted efforts to deal with it. According to the (Georgia Department of Public Health: 2010 Georgia Data Summary on obesity in children and youth), research have shown that obese children are likely to remain so into adulthood. According to the data, 15% of children between two to four years in Georgia are obese. Data also shows that 24% of children in third ...