/24-7PressRelease/ - NEW YORK, NY, April 27, 2008 - Castle said, "Although our principal focus is on combating the growing epidemic of overweight and obesity in children throughout the world, we cannot ignore our responsibility, as a humanitarian organization, to help others in need. These are very difficult times for many people...the sick, the elderly, our children, our veterans. Every tax-exempt humanitarian services organization, whether it is public or private, has a moral imperative to help its brother and sister organizations in their efforts to improve the state of human affairs. Not to do so would be the height of hypocrisy.
"It amazes me to think that one in every three children is either dangerously overweight or obese. In the United States, our kids actually have a lower life expectancy than we do. In a country that prides itself on having one of the best healthcare delivery systems in the world, this is an outrage. But I think that it is equally shameful when we are forced to acknowledge the fact that one in four of America's homeless persons are a veteran -- a person who put his or her life on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. Our Foundation has targeted childhood obesity -- but we cannot forget, not for a minute, that our principal business is humanity."
The public can access LIFE LINKS at http://LifeLinksIEP.blogspot.com . Gifts can be made to CIOF at http://www.ciofoundation.org.
ABOUT CHILDREN'S INTERNATIONAL OBESITY FOUNDATION ("CIOF") - CIOF is an approved IRS Section 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public foundation and charity whose international mission it is to eliminate.......through prediction, prevention, support and treatment. Each year, health complications caused by overweight and obesity in children and teens are responsible for a steadily increasing mortality statistic. CIOF notes that this is the first generation of children in the United States Of America who are not expected to live as long as their parents - To learn more about this problem and what you can do to help, visit http://www.ciofoundation.org.
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