Fit and healthy for a lifetime

摘要

UNC public health faculty, students and alumni discover ways to trim down the obesity epidemicA 10-year-old girl runs into her house in tears. During her first day of fifth grade at a new school, children made fun of her weight. At recess, nobody chose her for their soccer team, saying she ran too slowly to keep up. Some boys called her names. Mommy, she cries, am I always going to be fat?Her mother cringes, hearing echoes of the taunts from her own childhood. She wants to spare her daughter the low energy and poor self-esteem that she endures as an obese adult. Even more, she doesn’t want her daughter to face the same high risk of disease.