MDiTV News: New Recommendations on Screening Kids with Obesity

http://www.mditv.com -- The number of children in this country that are obese has increased at an alarming rate over the past few decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 17 percent of children and adolescents between the ages of 2 and 19 years old are obese. Anna Casey, a physical education specialist in Portland, Oregon, says this trend can have a considerably negative impact on these kids into adulthood. "Children are obese at a young age and they're getting type 2 diabetes so young where, type 2 is supposed to be adult-onset type of diabetes, so they have these health problems at a very young age," Casey said. "Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, they have osteoarthritis, things that shouldn't be happening to young children, and then we're setting them up, I don't want to say for failure, but for illness later on down the road."

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