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Take a Fruit Break
Why Take A Fruit Break?.

1. Obesity has been declared a "national epidemic". It is now estimated to be the leading cause of death in America. One in three American children is overweight.

2. This number is growing steadily, and has been since 1963.

3. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), if current trends continue, the human and financial costs of this burgeoning public health crisis will soon cancel out all the advances made with the decline in smoking!

4. We live in a food-saturated environment, and lifestyle changes like eating out, urban sprawl and families with two working parents are key contributors.

5. Ultimately, everyone shares responsibility for making todays children an extra large, and unhealthy, generation.

6. Deaths of young people from diseases related to being overweight is triple that of deaths resulting from tobacco, AIDS, guns, car accidents and drug use combined.

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