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'''Childhood obesity''' consists of excess body [[fat]] that adversely affects [[children]]'s health and well being. [[Obesity]] for children is ''especially'' dangerous because many overweight children will become overweight adults. Health problems related to overweight kids include but are not limited to [[diabetes mellitus type 2|Type 2 diabetes]] in adolescence and young adulthood, [[heart disease]], [[stroke]] and [[hypertension|high blood pressure]], diseases which until recently were not common in children and teenagers.

'''Childhood obesity''' consists of excess body [[fat]] that adversely affects [[children]]'s health and well being. [[Obesity]] for children is ''especially'' dangerous because many overweight children will become overweight adults. Health problems related to overweight kids include but are not limited to [[diabetes mellitus type 2|Type 2 diabetes]] in adolescence and young adulthood, [[heart disease]], [[stroke]] and [[hypertension|high blood pressure]], diseases which until recently were not common in children and teenagers.

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