Childhood Obesity

YMCA, CareFirst battle childhood obesity (Washington Business Journal)

16 May 2008

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington have formed a partnership to help prevent childhood obesity in the Washington area, where one in four children are overweight or obese and more than half between the ages of 5 and 10 have at least one risk factor leading to cardiovascular disease.

Yorkers develop battle plan against childhood obesity (The York Dispatch)

16 May 2008

One in five children in York County is overweight. And professionals from various fields say it's time to reverse the trend of childhood obesity, now considered a state and national epidemic.

Childhood Obesity (WHP CBS 21 Harrisburg)

16 May 2008

Dozens of York county leaders joined together for the generation XL summit at the Yorktowne Hotel in hopes of battling childhood obesity.