Childhood Obesity

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• Childhood Obesity Rates Rise in South Dakota

  
  My Overweight Child — Authority: 119
  South Dakotas most recent height and weight survey found that overweight and obesity have risen among the states children. For the 2008-09 school year, the Argus-Leader newspaper reported, 33.6 percent of South Dakota students were overweight or obese: The survey defines obese as above the 95th percentile body mass ...
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• Is Your Young Child Too Heavy? In NH, the Answer Could Be Yes

  
  NPR Topics: Opinion — Authority: 793
  New measurements of New Hampshire third graders confirm that the obesity epidemic is alive and well here. Its a complex problem with complicated solutions.
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• Head Start Programs Exceed PA and Nutrition Recommendations

  
  Peaceful Playgrounds — Authority: 125
  A new study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine finds that the majority of the nation’s Head Start programs report doing more to support healthy eating and physical activity than is required by existing federal regulations. Head Start is the nation’s largest federally funded early childhood ...
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• The Best of Littlestomaks in 2009

  
  LittleStomaks — Authority: 112
  It has been an excellent year blogging about toddler nutrition! When I started writing back in the Fall of 2008, I did not realize how exciting it could be to learn and write about all aspects of a young child’s nutrition and growth. Blogging has also given me an opportunity to connect with both experts and moms in ...
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• Holiday goodies and overweight kiddies: Handle with care

  
  CalorieLab Diet News — Authority: 429
  It’s that time of year when children’s eyes light up, their hearts race, and their clothes get tighter If the holidays present adults with a kind of dietary minefield of high-calorie treats and temptations, it’s an even more treacherous time for the overweight or obese child , a description which statistically ...
  2 days ago

• Childhood Obesity Solution

  
  Strictly Anything — Authority: 109
  Many children in the United States suffer because they are obese. These children are overweight because they do not eat properly and they get little physical activity. These children are subject to poor health because of their condition. The childhood obesity solution lies in changing their eating habits and by ...
  3 days ago

• 7367: Junk Food Advertisers Big, Fat Liars.

  
  MultiCultClassics — Authority: 483
  From The Los Angeles Times… Companies fall short in advertising healthy foods to children More than a dozen major companies pledged to push healthier foods two years ago, but study found ads for sugary cereals, fast food and sweet snacks made up more than 70% of the total. By Mary MacVean Despite a 2-year-old ...
  4 days ago

• New revelations about the food that kids should not eat

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington DC, Dec 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There have been some amazing revelations about the food that kids should not eat. According to the book, ‘Eat This Not That For Kids’, a lot of foods that are recommended for kid are actually not healthy for them. So this book should serve as a wake up call [...]
  5 days ago

• How proximity to convenience stores promotes child obesity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, December 18(ANI): The proximity of convenience stores to kids is connected to childhood obesity, according to a new study.As part of the study 632 children and their families from Montreal in Canada were recruited in 2005. The children belonged to family incomes ranging from 31,000 dollars to 141,000 ...
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• Vegetable Christmas Tree Centerpiece

  
  Express Your Creativity — Authority: 119
  My friend is having a dinner party tonight and told me to bring whatever I wanted and since Im trying to eat healthy, Im taking this topiary made from vegetables. Looks good and tastes good! Start with a foam cone in the pot and place veggies on skewers and stick them into the cone until its covered!
  5 days ago

• Early Education Program Gives Kids Head Start on Obesity Prevention

  
  My Overweight Child — Authority: 119
  A study by Temple University found that the Head Start program goes "above and beyond" federal recommendation for promoting healthy eating and exercise According to a Dec. 7 ScienceDaily article, a Temple survey of 1,583 Head Start programs found the following: Seventy percent of programs were serving only ...
  6 days ago

• Childhood Obesity: A Growing Epidemic

  
  Low Carb Diet Secrets — Authority: 156
  What is childhood obesity? When a child is in a weight class above the normal for height and age, he or she is considered obese. It is a serious medical condition that affects about 15 percent of children. Nearly 25 million children and teens in the United States are obese or overweight. During the past four decades, ...
  6 days ago

• Fat children should see fewer fat ads, federal work group concludes

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 697
  Filed under: Food , Health The belt around advertising to kids that pushes foods full of salt, sugar and/or saturated fat tightened another notch this week when a group of representatives from the FTC, FDA, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on its suggestions for new federal guidelines . ...
  6 days ago

• Out of Sight, Out of Mind

  
  Dr. Norris Chumley Satisfied Life — Authority: 127
  Thats a very easy, straightforward concept, isnt it?  If something that is not good for you is not easy to get, you are less likely to think of it, or eat it.  If the bad stuff is not in your mind, you are less likely to seek it out.  This is the big secret of advertising: put a product in peoples minds and they ...
  1 week ago

• Kids in home-based day care overexposed to TV: U.S. study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 16 (ANI): A new American study has found that a significant majority of children aged between 2 to 5 do not get sufficient physical activity and are exposed to the TV for most of the day.Stewart Trost, an internationally recognized expert on childhood obesity issues from Oregon State University, came ...
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• NH Recommendations to prevent childhood obesity

  
  Peaceful Playgrounds — Authority: 125
  One of the recommendations that the Commission to Prevent Childhood Obesity presented to the Governor and the New Hampshire Department of Education is reinstate the Physical Education and Health Coordinator at the state level. Click here for the additional recommendations from the commission.
  1 week ago

• Healthy Habits Should Start Early for Children

  
  Diets in Review Blog — Authority: 527
  More than two-thirds of adult Americans are obese, according to the latest studies, and many health experts feel that this begins in childhood. In the United States, the percentage of overweight or obese children has doubled over the past 30 years to 25 percent of the under-19 population. Obese children , just like ...
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• Psychotherapy Provides Obesity Prevention for Teenage Girls

  
  Disabled World — Authority: 440
  Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) focuses on improving interpersonal relationships by targeting the underlying social and interpersonal difficulties that influence individuals to engage in loss of control eating.
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• the honest scoop – 12-21-09

  
  honestbaby — Authority: 134
  Today’s top news headlines for parents After showing extreme violent tendencies, including an alleged attempt to kill them, an Oklahoma couple has decided that they’ve had enough of their adopted 11-year old son and want to give him back . The U.S. birth stats are out showing that the overall birth rate is ...
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• Childhood Obesity: A Growing Epidemic

  
  SmartHealthForLife.com — Authority: 166
  What is obesity in children? Childhood obesity is defined as weight being well above normal for the child age and height. It is one of our nations leading health threats. Today about 25 million children ages 2-19 in this country are overweight or at risk of becoming overweight. According to the Nemours Foundation, ...
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