Looks like even fats kids get full. Or at least tired.
After more than 30 years of bulging waistlines in our nation's children, the newest numbers suggest the so-called childhood obesity epidemic has finally plateaued: the level of overweight kids across the board seems to have remained about the same since 1999.
Of course, that doesn't really mean we can celebrate just yet. Not with an apple turnover, anyway. The numbers still point to a country full of kids so thoroughly overweight that one study declared it could be the first generation "of the modern era to live shorter lives than their parents."
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