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It’s predicted that US life expectancy will fall dramatically in the coming years, largely because of obesity.
According to research from the University of Illinois at Chicago, within the next fifty years, obesity will likely shorten the average life span of 77.6 years by two to five years.
If this turns out to be the case, it would reverse what has been basically a two century increase in the American life expectancy.
Today a visit with one family familiar with this issue and how they decided to support their eleven year old son who has been learning healthier ways to eat and exercise.
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It’s predicted that US life expectancy will fall dramatically in the coming years, largely because of obesity. According to research from the University of Illinois at Chicago, within the next fifty years, obesity will likely shorten the average life span of 77.6 years by two to five years. If this turns out to be the case, it would reverse what has been basically a two century increase in the American life expectancy. Today a visit with one family familiar with this issue and how they decided to support their eleven year old son who has been learning healthier ways to eat and exercise.
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Review of Overweight Kids in California
There's no question that obesity is a national problem. This piece adresses this problem by taking a look at one family's efforts to help their son lose weight by making it a family project and goal. Often families don't understand that the entire family has to change its lifestyle in order for effective weight loss. Not an easy undertaking but this piece does offer positive information that families across the country would find useful. This piece would play well in any state for any station's news magazine.