Another view: A big problem solved?

Rejoice in the new report from the National Center for Health Statistics that suggests that childhood obesity rates may have plateaued. But rejoice for only a moment. As David Ludwig of Children's Hospital Boston wrote in a commentary released with the report, "We're not out of the woods by any stretch. Even if the rates don't go up any more, they are so high that the full impact of the childhood obesity epidemic will continue for the next few decades."