Summary
Published Date: November 09, 2011
This joint study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) finds that the percentage of overweight and obese children in the state dropped 1.1 percent from 2005 to 2010. However, 38 percent of children are still affected — a rate nearly three times higher than it was 30 years ago, when the obesity epidemic began. Progress is also geographically uneven; 31 of California's 58 counties experienced an increase in childhood overweight over the five-year period from 2005 to 2010.
