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Child Obesity

It's no coincidence that the rate of childhood obesity coincided with the Nintendo generation. But the roots run much deeper.

The obesity epidemic can be traced back thousands of years, to a human biology geared to eat as much as possible to store fat for lean times. In earlier societies, those who could gorge when food was available would survive. It doesn't work when high-fat food is available all the time.

Health and weight experts believe obese children are not active enough for optimal development and they will have a 40-per-cent chance of becoming an obese adult. At that rate, there won't be sufficient health resources in the next 15 years to treat Canadians suffering with diseases related to obesity.

"Child obesity has become more and more obvious over the last 10 years and we can't ignore this anymore," says Dr. Claire Leblanc, a pediatric sports medicine rheumatologist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario who also chairs the Advisory Committee on Active Living formed in conjunction with the Canadian Pediatric Society.

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