As part of Jump4Health's commitment to fighting the childhood obesity epidemic, the company donates mini-trampoline exercise equipment and training materials to the children's physical therapy unit at Harlem Hospital, New York

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 28, 2007 -- It's hard to get a hold on the obesity epidemic infecting the Nation's children. If as guidelines for measuring body mass index (BMI) in children suggest then a massive 8 million children, aged from 5 to 17, are now considered overweight or at risk. That amounts to approximately 20 percent of all children in the United States, almost triple what it was in the 1970s.

If that's not bad enough, the health problems associated with obesity -- high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, orthopedic problems and sleep apnea to mention a few -- are likely to cost the public health sector hundreds of billions of dollars by 2020. Which, by comparison, will make HIV look, economically, like a rather bad case of the flu.

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