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“ Child  Obesity  Causes Lifetime Health Problems” Health professionals are united in their belief that obesity in children causes lifetime health problems. The question is how to insure this rising tide of child obesity in the twenty-first century. Child Obesity Definition  Genetics may play a role in childhood obesity but it’s more often a case of poor eating habits being inadvertently passed down from parent to child through a lack of dietary understanding, financial issues, and generally shared behavior patterns. It’s not uncommon to see several members of the same family all being overweight. When a shared poor quality dietary regime results in producing an overweight family it often masks the childhood obesity issues due to the “mini-me” syndrome where the kids are simply seen as “a chip off the old block” or “big like his father”. When this situation exists and there is no parental guidance available it is almost inevitable that the problem will be perpetuated. As ...