The study also found that, while obesity that continues into adulthood has little influence on mens outcomes, it makes women less likely to have ever been employed or to currently have a romantic partner.A 2017 National Bureau of Economic Research paper found that childhood obesity in the United States increases medical costs by $1,354 a year (in 2013 dollars). See also
International Journal of Pediatric Obesity
Task Force on Childhood Obesity
Classification of childhood obesity
Obesity and the environment
Social influences on fitness behavior
Social stigma of obesity
Sugary drink tax
EPODE International NetworkTransport:

Active mobility
Childrens street culture
Childrens street games
Cycling mobility
Home zone / Play street
Obesity and walking
Student transport
Walking bus

Footnotes
Further reading
Laura Dawes, Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. External links

"North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
Confusional arousals are classified as “partial awakenings in which the state of consciousness remains impaired for several minutes without any accompanying major behavioural disorders or severe autonomic responses”. Complete or partial amnesia of the episodes may be present. Signs and symptoms
Confusional arousals are accompanied by mental confusion and disorientation, relative lack of response to environmental stimuli, and difficulty of awakening the subject. Vocalisation accompanied with coherent speech is common. Patients may appear upset, and some of them become aggressive or agitated. As well as for children, attempting to awaken or console an adult patient may increase agitation. Confusional arousals can occur during or following an arousal of deep sleep (see slow-wave sleep) and upon an attempt of awakening the subject from sleep in the morning.In children, confusional arousals can often be reproduced artificially by awakening the child during deep sleep. However, it doesn’t have any clinical significance without deeper investigation. Children living an episode of confusional arousal typically sit up in bed, whimper, cry, moan, and may utter words like “no” or “go away”. They remain distressed and inconsolable despite all parental efforts. Paradoxically, parental efforts can rather increase agitation of the child. The onset of symptoms is usually within 2 and 3 hours of sleep onset (at the time of transition from slow-wave sleep to a lighter sleep stage) and those events can last from 10 to 30 minutes. Patients generally wake up without any recollection of the event. It is necessary to distinguish confusional arousals in adults from children.