Parents Concerned About Child Obesity

08/31/2006

Parents Concerned About Child Obesity

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An overwhelming majority of adults are concerned about the expanding waistlines of children in the United States, with 84 percent viewing childhood obesity as a “major problem,” according to a Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Health Care Poll (www.harrisinteractive.com). The poll found that…

81 percent of adults blame parents, not marketing and food-industry advertising, for children’s weight problems;
83 percent say public schools should boost efforts to restrict student access to junk food;
93 percent believe schools need to “do more to promote regular exercise.”

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