Giggles N’ Hugs (GIGL) Was Created To Help Get Kids Healthy, Not Just Help Parents Relax
According to official CDC data, childhood obesity has more than doubled in the past three decades among children (it has tripled among adolescents), and the portion of kids in the country aged six to eleven who are obese, now stands at nearly 20 percent. Type 2 diabetes (often called adult-onset diabetes), once virtually unheard of in people under the age of 30, is now rising to such staggering prevalence among children and adolescents that peer-reviewed medical journal Diabetes Care recently described it as an emerging epidemic. Increasingly sedentary lifestyles among today’s children, driven by factors like mounting screentime and further…