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• in Lifestyle
  Fighting Childhood Obesity with Social Media
  Social media is a new and productive way in helping children manage their weight. A recent study suggests using social networks in child obesity interventions.
  by georgezapo / on Jan 26, 2013
• in Family
  Study Says Parents Ignore Their Children's Weight Gain
  Parents Don't Identify Their Child's Weight Gain Easily
  by goldensylph / on Dec 6, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  5 Early Interventions To Change Childhood Eating Patterns
  Michelle Obama's Let's Move Day Care Program may save money by preventing chronic disease related to obesity.
  by sweaterart / on Jun 9, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “childhood obesity”

 

• Diabetes: Here’s Why You Should Get Tested NOW

  
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  Diabetes is one of the most prevalent and debilitating chronic disease of modern society. One in Three (!) Americans has either diabetes or pre-diabetes. Tens of millions of Americans are prediabetic or in early stages of type 2 diabetes and … Continue reading → Read the full story on the Fooducate blog...
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• San Francisco Allows Happy Meals After McDonald’s OK’s Back Room Fisting

  
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  SAN FRANCISCO – Representatives for the McDonald’s Corporation met with members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors yesterday hoping to settle their dispute over the sale of Happy Meals in San Francisco. Last week the Board of Supervisors voted to pass a law severely curtailing the practice of giving away ...
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• Take Action: Tell McDonald’s to Stop Advertising to Kids

  
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  This Mother’s Day, Corporate Accountability International (CAI) is calling on parents everywhere to join together to help put an end to McDonalds’ predatory marketing to kids. McDonald’s has always marketed to children, so that’s nothing new, but now they’ve infiltrated our schools as well with ...
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• Food Porn and Its Opposite

  
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  Before returning to the fascinating subject of food porn , excuse us for a moment while we pat ourselves on the back for being astute spotters of talent and relevance. Yes, Childhood Obesity News covered ChopChop way before it was chosen “ Publication of the Year ” by the prestigious James Beard Foundation. ...
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• Preventable death and the pH miracle diet

  
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  The Center of Disease Control and Prevention evaluates several health factors when it compiles its list of preventable causes of death. Among the expected conditions on the list were death from tobacco, death from alcohol consumption and death from drugs. However, surprisingly, poor diet and lack of firm activity is ...
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• Does Homework Contribute to Childhood Obesity?

  
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  Childhood obesity is a major concern in many parts of the world. Finding ways to help prevent it requires a little creativity and a lot of reexamining the way we’ve always done things. I recently read a really interesting article about French President François Hollande banning homework in France. His reasons were ...
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• Food Porn Bigger Than Ever

  
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  As posts flow by on the Facebook stream, there are occasional pictures of food — and if you pick the right crowd, you don’t see too many of them. If someone invents a new dish, or a charming presentation, or makes an unusual combination, sure, fine, show it off. But the pictures of “What I Ate For Lunch,” or ...
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• Russell Hemmings tackles childhood obesity head on

  
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  Filed under: case study , Children , Weight loss
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• Childrens food found to have high salt, fat and sugar levels

  
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  Foods that are being markets at children in supermarkets across the UK are actually less healthy than the ones being marketed to the general public. This is according to a team of researchers from the University of Hertfordshire, who are questioning whether more stringent guidelines could be needed when it comes to ...
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• Obesity Prevention in Children Grant Program (Various Locations)

  
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  Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Program The Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Program, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has announced a grant funding opportunity for non-profit community health care organizations implementing evidence-based , ...
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• Who’s Responsible For The Cereals That Fatten Up Our Kids?

  
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  (CC) dan taylor/Flickr You can just make up your own “cereal killers” pun for this subhead If sugar can largely be blamed for our widespread outbreak of childhood overweight and obesity — and other than those employed by the C&H company, most health experts believe that it can — that blame can more ...
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• Oprah’s Most Frequent Weight Loss Guest Opens All-Girls’ Summer Weight-Loss Camp

  
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  Stacey Halprin hopes to combat childhood obesity with Camp Friends 4Ever at William & Mary University RALEIGH, N.C., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Stacey Halprin, whose 13 appearances on Oprah made her Oprah’s #1 Weight Loss Guest, is known for changing the lives of overweight children.  This summer, the all ...
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• Dizzying Contradictions in Childhood Obesity

  
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  We saw how fathers can genetically influence the weight of their children, or at least the weight of their daughters, as shown by an Australian study. Medical Xpress recently wrote about the work being done at University College London with genome-wide complex trait analysis, or GTCA. This is a technique that ...
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• Innovative Approaches to Preventing Childhood Obesity Grant Program

  
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  Safeway Foundation The goals of this funding are to empower innovative programs to expand and enhance services, increase capacity, and/or incorporate new strategies to support healthy body weights among children and adolescents; evaluate the impact of existing programs; and identify promising approaches that ...
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• Amanda Timm: Cristina’s walk- Built environments and childhood health

  
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  Cristina lives in an impoverished neighborhood near Houston’s downtown. Every day, Cristina’s first challenge is to get to school. The half-mile route is full of hazards. It includes a wide range of sidewalk conditions – none, broken, decent, and one with no barrier from the morning traffic zooming by. On one ...
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• Positive Deviants and Other Early Interventionists

  
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  There are studies showing that poverty correlates with childhood obesity . For instance, in 2010 Harvard Medical School issued study results that showed: [...] black and Hispanic children were more likely than white children to have gained weight rapidly during infancy. What’s more, they spent less time ...
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• Psychological Effects of Childhood Obesity

  
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  Obesity is on the rise in this country, and obesity among children has become a major issue for health care providers. Childhood obesity is a serious medical condition that affects children and adolescents. Childhood obesity can result in a number of psychological issues. Weight issues could be particularly difficult ...
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• Munchkins, Anyone?

  
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  First Lady Michelle Obama’s kitchen garden, used to promote healthy eating, is getting a new neighbor: Dunkin Donuts.
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• Solving Childhood Obesity

  
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  Yay, Tiger! A very cool thing happened last Saturday. Tiger Greene—the 15-year-old football-loving inspiration who lost nearly 80 pounds and started Team Tiger , a get-healthy movement for kids—helped host the third annual Sacking Obesity camp at the Georgia Superdome in Atlanta. NFL great Marcus Stroud was ...
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• More About Early Intervention

  
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  Last time, Childhood Obesity News considered a study that showed the stress of poverty leading to depressed mothers and overfed, obese infants. Now, what about the effect of financial rewards on adults? The Mayo Clinic did a study that included 100 employees or dependents of employees and followed them for a year, ...
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