Children's Health & Fitness ? Educators Needed For Fight Against ...

June 11th, 2012 by Len Saunders

From the CEEP Report?..

The problem of childhood obesity is getting worse across the nation and Indiana, requiring direct action by schools, parents and governmental leaders, according to a new policy brief from the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy at Indiana University. The brief, ?Childhood Obesity and Nutrition Issues in the United States: an Update on School-Based Policies and Practices,? details the most recent statistics outlining what many health experts denote as a growing obesity ?epidemic.?

?All states are losing the fight,? said report co-author Terry Spradlin, director for education policy and the High School Survey of Student Engagement at CEEP. ?In fact, there was an initiative in 2000 that called for all states to have an obesity rate of 15 percent or less by 2010. Here we are at a 35 percent rate for the nation today. Roughly a third of our adult population is considered obese; for our childhood population nationwide, that obesity rate is roughly 17 percent.?

Indiana is among the most obese states for the adult population with the 15th highest percentage (up from 16th in 2009, according to the Trust for America?s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). Indiana?s percentage of overweight and obese children moved past four states since 2009 to 27th in the nation.

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