On the recordMarch 3, 2010
My wife is a nurse, and I can't tell you, during the 10 years she worked at a hospital, how often she'd come home and just say, 'You wouldn't believe how big American children are getting.'
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Merkley highlights concerns about rising childhood obesity in America.
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