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Obesity in America
The Enemy Within

Awaken the gatekeepers of America for an enemy has risen against our great country. This villain dwells in the compromise and unbelief of its citizens. The weapon this foe uses against our nation its forges from the lust and desires within its people. This enemy advances in the sleep and slumber of its prey. This invader spreads like locust claiming an estimated 35% of all American's as its victims. As we unmask this assassin we find its identity is obesity, and yes America it has compromised your heart, clouded your mind and weakened your body.

In former President Clinton closing address at the winter Governors meeting in February of 2006 he urged America's governors to take an active role in the fight against childhood obesity. President Clinton was quoted in saying, "nine million children and adolescents are overweight and have a 70% chance of becoming overweight or obese adults." He went on to say, "we must act now to reverse this deadly trend. If we do not, this could be the first generation that will have a shorter life span than its parents." Hospital costs related to child and adolescent obesity have risen 300% over the last 20 years going from $ 35 million to $ 127 million in 1999. In 2004 a study released by Emory University showed obesity accounted for 27% of the growth in health care spending. Clinton, sited Health Affairs published study which estimates that The United States will spend over 4 trillion dollars on health care by 2015. Obesity is an enemy that not only threatens our health and life expectancy, but is bankrupting our country in the process. The importance in the rise in childhood obesity, is it speaks against the scientific community's position that obesity is determined by a genetic code that must be discovered. If this were true, why would it now being showing up in the children over the last two decades?

Another health enemy related to obesity attacking America and its children is IRS, no not the folks from Washington, but Insulin Resistance Syndrome or Metabolic Syndrome. Both obesity and IRS are growing at epidemic pace and if you tract their history they are mirroring one another. Why would this be? Answer, because the same lifestyle factors that cause them are found in both. Again, look to what's happening to the children, it was unheard of for a child to have IRS or Type II diabetes, or first known as adult-onset diabetes, which science has quickly renamed. In the last 20 years childhood and

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