“Young Kids, Old Bodies” by Alice Park is an article exploring the connections between childhood obesity and early onset of the aging process. The article was published on March 3, 2014 in Time magazine. Readers are anecdotally introduced to several adolescents who are struggling with obesity related health problems, which adds a human touch. Park delves into to the vast territory of health issues correlating with childhood obesity, the dilemma of medication, and the psycho-social complexity of disease prevention and treatment through lifestyle change. This twenty-first century crisis, is identified by Park as, “These kids aren’t simply developing the diseases of adults; they are in many ways, physically becoming adults” (3). This is important,
