That’s odd; the links I quoted are ones I’d just looked at - they weren’t broken for me.
Here’s a New York Times story from 2005, when the obesity problem first started ringing alarm bells:
Children’s Life Expectancy Being Cut Short by Obesity
By PAM BELLUCK
Published: March 17, 2005
BOSTON, March 16 - For the first time in two centuries, the current generation of children in America may have shorter life expectancies than their parents, according to a new report, which contends that the rapid rise in childhood obesity, if left unchecked, could shorten life spans by as much as five years.
The report, to be published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine…
