**Childhood Obesity in the United States**Childhood obesity is a serious health problem for children in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of 2018, _____ of all children 2–5 years old are obese.**Options:**A) 15.5%B) 5.7%C) 10.4%D) 13.9%

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Social Psychology (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134641287

Author:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Publisher:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Chapter1: Introducing Social Psychology

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**Childhood Obesity in the United States**

Childhood obesity is a serious health problem for children in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of 2018, _____ of all children 2–5 years old are obese.

**Options:**

A) 15.5%

B) 5.7%

C) 10.4%

D) 13.9%

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Introduction

Health is regarded to be wealth for individuals in society, we earn to live a happy and healthy life, but it has been found that in the US several children are being born with several diseases and one of them is obesity, which is widely popular there.

As children are born the main causes of them being obese are genetic or family-related causes, unhealthy lifestyle of parents leading to obese babies, the environment and unhealthy eating habits of the US people where they depend more on packaged and junk food is one of the primary causes of obesity in the US.