Kathleen Sebelius, the new Health and Human Services Secretary, made headlines the other day at a "Weight of the Nation" conference when she said that about 33 percent of American kids today are overweight or obese.
But in my Central California pediatric practice, the figure is much higher. I see about 40% Latino and 35% Anglo patients as well as many Hmong/Cambodian, Laotian, Filipino, East Indian, and Native American children. Child obesity is rampant