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Healthy Children Ready to Learn: Facilities Best Practices

California Department of Education, 2006

Childhood obesity has become an epidemic that is sweeping the nation. The American Heart Association’s report A Nation at Risk discusses the rapidly increasing incidence of obesity in the United States and notes “if childhood obesity continues to increase, it could . . . cause our current generation of children to become the first generation in American history to live shorter lives than their parents.”

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