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Texas, U.S. Face Paradoxical Nutrition Problems

  

Author:
Celia Cole /(512) 320-0222 x110

July 10, 2003

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In the richest nation on earth, 13 million children do not always get enough to eat. At the same time, in an alarming, paradoxical trend, childhood obesity has joined childhood hunger on the list of serious threats to kids' nutritional health.