Posted on May 11th, 2010 by Craig Maltby, Editor
The childhood obesity problem and immune balance
First Lady Michelle Obama announced in January she would be launching a national advocacy effort to fight 
childhood obesity, a critical health issue in the United States that has been well documented. The initiative is called Let’s Move.
Today, the Let’s Move organization, known more formally as The Childhood Obesity Task Force, released a list of 70 action items that expert task force contributors recommended as necessary in achieving significant reduction in obesity among America’s kids. The full report released today is available at this link.
My take? This is a great area for a renewed public and private sector effort because obesity contributes to so many health conditions it isn’t even funny. And yes, immune health deficiency is one of them.
As science has shown, “obesity can depress the immune system by interfering with the ability of white blood cells to produce antibodies. Research shows that overweight babies get twice as many infections as lean babies.”
If your immune health is distressed from an early age, that’s gotta set the stage for a lifetime of increased risk for all kinds of health conditions. Not good.
June 2nd, 2010 at 1:25 pm
When googling childhood obesity, I found some more interesting results on some of the later pages. It’s where I found The childhood obesity problem and immune balance | Balanced Immune Health. I think it’s always worthwhile going past the first and second page on google if you’ve got the time.