This week's Progress Prompts were posted after I went to bed last night, so here it is, better late than never:

Childhood obesity is on the rise. Why?

I think that a number of factors contribute to this, including our society's increasingly sendentary lifestyle and poor eating habits. I could write an entire book on this subject but I wouldn't cover any ground that hadn't been already been done to death in the press. A few years ago, I remember reading an excellent article on this topic in Radiance magazine.