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From: The Washington Times | February 9, 2010
President Obama on Tuesday put his strength behind the fight against childhood obesity, ordering federal agencies to join in a 90-day plan to curb a problem that has reached epidemic proportions. "We think that this has enormous promise in improving the health of our children, in giving support to parents to make the kinds of healthy choices that often times are very difficult in this kind of environment," the president said upon signing the executive order at a White House ceremony. Nearly one-third of U.S. children are overweight or obese -- a rate that has tripled among adolescents and doubled ...
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