Over a 15-year period, the rates of severe childhood obesity continue to climb.
超過15年間,兒童嚴重肥胖率繼續攀升。
Researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute have found that one-third of American children aged 2 to 19 were overweight.
杜克臨床研究所的研究人員發現,2到19歲的美國兒童中有三分之一超重。
Lead researcher, Asheley Skinner, says that treatment for 4.5 million severely obese children is needed.
首席研究員斯金表示,需要對450萬嚴重肥胖的兒童進行治療。
Childhood obesity increases the risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer.
兒童肥胖會增加患心臟病、2型糖尿病和癌癥的風險。
"Unless we make big changes on a national level, we're not going to see huge changes in obesity," Skinner says.
“除非我們在國家層面上做出很大的改變,否則在肥胖方面不會看到巨大變化,“斯金納說。
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