Startling Statistics:
Rates of Stroke, Diabetes, Heart Disease and Childhood Obesity were found to be 70% higher in neighborhoods the closest to a fast food outlet.
Our children are being subjected to a highly sophisticated, mass-marketing campaign to eat more and more junk-food.
And school lunches aren’t much help either, which is why First Lady Michelle Obama last month launched an initiative to fight Childhood Obesity.
The implications are terrifying:
- declining educational performance & learning disabilities
- mental disorders like attention deficit syndrome now at epidemic proportions
- massive instances of obesity, leukemia, cancer, diabetes and heart disease
All are evidence of a massive decline in our children’s health and well being. And violence on a scale unheard of in my childhood is now totally commonplace in our schools.
But how do you as a parent cope?
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