I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid.
In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.
More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.
I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.
Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of obese and overweight children - one in three now. A generation ago it was something like one in ten.
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
I was rather a fat little boy.
As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital.
