15th
March
2007
Chicago’s childhood obesity crisis
posted in Childhood Obesity, General, Obesity Epidemic, Overweight Kids |Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic all over America, but in minority neighborhoods in Chicago it’s becoming an outright crisis:
But two out of every three children in Chicago’s minority neighborhoods are overweight or obese - a number that far surpasses already disturbing national averages, according to a 2004 study by the Sinai Urban Health Institute.
