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...Leadership, Education, Adolescent Health Program and the director of the Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
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Kreipe gave a presentation titled "Youth and Obesity" at Cornell's Ecology of Obesity conference held June 6 and 7, 2005. He noted that the top two public health issues of major concern to the nation are declining physical activity and increasing overweight or obesity, as outlined by Healthy People 2010, the national public health framework designed to identify the most significant health threats to Americans and to establish national goals to reduce those threats. Physical activity and overweight/obesity are also the World Health Organization's number one and two health indicators.
There has been an "epidemic increase," Kreipe said, in overweight children, according to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, conducted over a 12-year period from 1986 to 1998. The study found that all racial groups experienced increasing rates of obesity. The study examined physical activity in 2,400 girls (half of them African American, half Caucasian), and found a decline...
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