Residents of Wilson Apartments participated in a Strong 4 Life initiative to build a community garden.
children are overweight or obese. The numbers are similar right here in Colum- bus. This is alarming because childhood obesity is much more than a cosmetic concern. The health consequences of childhood obesity include greater risk of serious illnesses at an earlier age. The dra- matic increase in childhood obesity rates causes some experts to fear that children born after 2000 may be the first genera- tion of American children who will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
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ccording to the Centers for Disease Control
and Pre-
vention (CDC) in Atlanta, nearly 40 percent of Georgia’s