There is an ever-increasing number of children who are overweight and obese, and this is a tremendous healthcare problem. You're doing great. In the last two decades, childhood obesity rates have doubled. Kaufman says children who struggle with obesity have a genetic predisposition for weight gain, and African American and Hispanic children have a higher propensity than other groups. This gene has been there for millennia.
Fatty foods are everywhere.
When we sit those families and those children down and explain to them, it's like we turned on a light. I mean, I think a lot of them lacked just the basic information. I think some of our families are just glad to be able to feed their families. They don't understand that that meal is laden with fat and overburdened with calories and not the best thing to eat. It's a scenario that Dorothy Lacey understands.