Source 1 Section 1: Park, Alice. “Childhood Obesity Rates Are Still Rising .” Time , 26 Apr. 2016. Section 2: This article was written by Alice Park with the purpose of stating the fact that childhood obesity rates are still rising. The author supports her claim by factual evidence. She uses Asheley Skinner who is an associate professor medicine at Duke University. Asheley and her colleagues found that obesity is continuing to climb based on national surveys that they analyzed over the past 15 years. Alice Park states in her article, “In the latest survey, conducted from 2013 to 2014, 33% of children were overweight, and 26% were considered obese.” Another fact that was used as evidence was “The prevalence of overweight and obesity increased steadily year by year from 1994 to 2014. For overweight, it went up from 28.8% in 1999 to 33.4% and for the least severe typ...
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