Listed below you will find a number of studies and links to other groups and organizations that illustrate the significance and impact of obesity in children.  If you won’t take our word for it, take theirs!

This page will be updated with additional links and current studies.  Be sure to stop back for additional information.


The CDC
We use the Centers for Disease Control for most of our information and also the current obesity measures.  Our statistics are their statistics.

• http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/index.htm

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
They have committed a substantial amount to reducing obesity.

Alliance for a Healthier Generation- This is funded primarily from the Clinton foundation.  Democrat, or Republican, obesity does not discriminate.


Childhood Obesity Consequences

• http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/childhood/consequences.htm

• http://www.futureofchildren.org
  /information2850/information_show.htm?doc_id=355256

Economic consequences of obesity

• http://www.healthiergeneration.org/about.aspx?id=316#health

• http://www.chicagofed.org/publications/economicperspectives
  /2003/3qeppart3.pdf

Want to See What Obesity Costs Your State Annually?

• http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/economic_consequences.htm

Obesity and Academic Impact
Childhood obesity does not only impact a child’s health but it also impacts their education.

• http://www.jsc.montana.edu/articles/v4n4.pdf

• http://cnx.org/content/m14420/latest/

• http://www.nihcm.org/~nihcmor/pdf/OYCbrief.pdf