The Smart Board (stylized as SMART Board) is a line of interactive whiteboards produced by the Calgary, Alberta-based company Smart Technologies.he Smart Board is an interactive whiteboard that uses touch detection for user input (for example scrolling and right mouse-click) in the same way as normal PC input devices.
Childhood obesity comes with an estimated price tag of $19,000 per child when comparing lifetime medical costs to those of a normal weight child, according to an analysis led by researchers at the Duke Global Health Institute and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore.n alternative estimate, which takes into account the possibility of normal weight children gaining weight in adulthood, reduces the cost to $12,900 per obese child. The findings appear online today in the journal Pediatrics.
Alternate Text: The figure above shows the prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents, by age group, in the United States during 1963-2008. In the United States, childhood obesity affects approximately 12.5 million children and teens (17% of that population).Changes in obesity prevalence from the 1960s show a rapid increase in the 1980s and 1990s, when obesity prevalence among children and teens tripled from nearly 5% to approximately 15%. FIGURE 2.DC Grand Rounds: Childhood Obesity in the United States. Please note: An erratum has been published for this article. To view the erratum, please click here. The magnitude of the problem. In the United States, childhood obesity affects approximately 12.5 million children and teens (17% of that population) (1).