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Obesity Among New Yorker Children Blamed To Fast Food Restaurants


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The increasing obesity levels among the children in New York City are blame to the increasing number of fast food chains and restaurants in the city.

The possible caused of obesity that occurred in the younger generation of New York City was blamed to the neighborhood that acquired lots of fast food chains and restaurants in their area.

Medical experts show an interesting data about obesity in New York City, They have found out that neighborhood which had low average income in the city usually suffers on this kind of medical condition.

It is pretty alarming for health experts to see the increasing changes of how the city manages their physical education system in every school.   They have found out that 40 percent increase for the childhood obesity in the city.

According to the gathered information on their childhood obesity study, around forty percent of school children from kindergartners up to the eight graders endure this kind of health condition. This report stated that almost half of the young people of the population in the city suffered for being overweight or obese.

The recorded data worried almost the whole population of the state; it is an issue that raised a number of questions regarding the implementation of physical education in the city.

According to the Fitnessgram evaluation that the obesity levels in the city depends mainly to the community and neighborhood. There are specific ethnic groups where they have discovered superior levels of obesity among the young members of their population.

They tagged this neighborhood through their zip codes; in the West side area with a zip code of 10069, almost 12 percent of children in this area were unquestionably experiencing the problem of obesity, while in 11368 had an alarming number of 51 percent among their young children.

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