California is facing an obesity epidemic, ... And more and more, children are becoming part of the problem.

Obesity-related health problems cost us $US28 billion ($A36.79 billion) a year,

This is especially important nowadays with all the emphasis on obesity in children. We know that children need to learn early on that they need know how to control their bodies and their health, and continue it throughout their lives. We model it for them, and we teach them how to go about that. We talk about it with them at length, about good nutrition, about sleeping, and about getting exercise routinely.

Because research has shown that obesity in children today has tripled in the last 20 years and is becoming perhaps the biggest threat to the health and welfare of future generations,

If we don't get obesity under control with our children, we are going to continue to have more kids developing heart disease and diabetes,

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.