The obesity epidemic could shorten US life expectancies by up to five years, reversing a 150-year trend. The prevalence and severity of obesity will continue to increase, and people in ever-younger age groups will experience the consequences of being overweight-heart disease, stroke, cancer, kidney failure, diabetes, etc. An estimated 30% of American children are overweight.

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