-> According to a Mar. 4th NPR story, "About 69 percent of American adults are overweight or obese, and more than four in five people say they are worried about obesity as a public health problem. But a recent poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health revealed a curious schism in our national attitudes toward obesity: Only one in five kids had a parent who feared the boy or girl would grow up to be overweight as an adult."
"Put another way, assuming current trends persist, parents of 80 percent of American children think all these kids will somehow end up being among the lucky 31 percent of adults who are not overweight…"
Source: https://n.pr/Xs8KRB
from CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling & Walking.
Biking in Baltimore