A PIE THAT'S HARD TO SWALLOW

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THE HARD FACTS:

66% of adults in the US are overweight or obese (33% overweight, 33% obese)
~ Center for Disease Control

34% of children in New York State are overweight or obese. ~ New York State Health Commissioner Richard Daines, MD

50% of children between the ages of 2 – 15 have fatty streaks in their arteries, literally the beginning stages of heart disease.~ Bogalusa Heart Study
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/338/23/1650

33% of children born in 2000 will develop type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives. For African Americans and Latinos, the numbers rise to a frightening 40 – 53%. This means more blindness, amputations, kidney dialysis, heart disease, poor quality of life, and early death. ~ Center for Disease Control

35% of all cancer deaths are caused by diet (and 33% are caused by tobacco). We already have the solution to 68% of cancer deaths – and it is called prevention. ~ Doll and Peto, Journal of the National Cancer Institute ~ American Cancer Society

1 hotdog or 2 slices of bologna a week are enough to increase colorectal cancer risk by 30 – 50% in adult women, and children are more susceptible to carcinogens than adults. ~ American Cancer Society, News Center: Eating Lots of Red Meat Linked to Colon Cancer

~Journal of the American Medical Association, Meat Consumption and Risk of Colorectal Cancer

~World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research – Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer