Households With at Least One Obese Child Differ in Several Ways From Those Without

摘要

The prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States has more than tripled since the 1970s. According to statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 1 out of 5 children and adolescents (ages 2-19) were obese in 2011-14. (An obese child/adolescent is one whose body mass index (BMI) is at or above the 95th percentile of the sex-specific CDC BMI-for-age growth chart.)