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Need more encouragement to help your kids stay healthy?
This week, first lady Michelle Obama announced a national campaign to combat childhood obesity, and now a new study shows that obese children are more likely to die prematurely than their healthy-weight peers. The research adds to growing evidence of the health risks of childhood obesity. – From USA Today
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Alex Carter
Alex has written for Vanity Fair, Barrons, Bloomberg and Condé Nast Traveler.