Sources

All quoted stats, figures, and facts can be found at the sources below:

• CDC Childhood Obesity Facts
• CDC Childhood Obesity Data
• Coalition on Children and Weight San Diego
• American Heart Association Childhood Obesity
• World Health Organization on Childhood Obesity

Partners and Further Reading

Here you’ll find more information on the childhood obesity problem, and how it’s affecting our future:

• Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta
• LA’s BEST (Los Angeles)
• Vetri Community Partnership (Philadelphia)
• Real School Gardens (Dallas)
• C.H.O.I.C.E.S. (Atlanta)
• YMCA Dallas
• “Parents as the exclusive agents of change in the treatment of childhood obesity.”
  M Golan, A Weizman, A Apter, and M Fainaru. Am J Clin Nutr June 1998 vol. 67 no. 6 1130-1135
• “Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012”
  Ogden CL, Carroll MD, Kit BK, Flegal KM. Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012. JAMA. 2014;311(8):806-814. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.732
• “Predicting Obesity in Young Adulthood from Childhood and Parental Obesity”
  Robert C. Whitaker, M.D., M.P.H., Jeffrey A. Wright, M.D., Margaret S. Pepe, Ph.D., Kristy D. Seidel, M.S., and William H. Dietz, M.D., Ph.D. N Engl J Med 1997; 337:869-873September 25, 1997DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199709253371301