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Childhood obesity revealed in fat map
Published July 4, 2009, 1:30 pm, Daily Telegraph
One in six children are obese by the time they start school in some parts of the country a new "fat map" of Britain has revealed.
School Canteen Food Must Bear Nutritional Value Label
Published July 4, 2009, 1:10 pm, Khaleej Times
ABU DHABI - The Health Authority-Abu Dhabi (HAAD) revised in May its school health guidelines for canteens and physical activities for school children.
Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus
Published July 4, 2009, 7:53 am, NPR
Weekend Edition math guy Keith Devlin graded the body mass index, a popular measure of determining healthy body weight, and failed it on 10 grounds.
Kids are Runners Too at Holland
Published July 4, 2009, 12:42 am, East Aurora Advertiser
As elementary students lined up below a balloon-covered starting gate, a sculpture of the Holland Dutchman mascot watched and a few clouds dawdled overhead. After a brief speech by a teacher, the students took off to finish their half-marathon, a distance of 13.1 miles.
Physicians look to combat Miss. obesity
Published July 4, 2009, 12:09 am, The Natchez Democrat
While the South is known the world over for its rich culinary fare that cuisine comes with some ...
Thai Asean News Network
Published July 3, 2009, 1:53 am, Thailand Outlook Channel
On Thursday June 25, we were all shocked by the news of a death of a young woman who might have died from diet pill overdose. The news, though shocking, barely made a splash in the news industry. That's because most people are aware of how dangerous diet pills are.
Top Scoops
Published July 2, 2009, 9:57 pm, Scoop.co.nz
WORD I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired - Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer I think, therefore Descartes exists. - Saul Steinberg FLOTSAM & JETSAM: FROM VICTIM TO PERP Sam Smith It used to be easy to tell the enemy. All you had to do ...
Exercise: A Diabetes Fighter?
Published July 2, 2009, 9:05 pm, The Tampa Tribune
Skip exercise now, pay later: That's the warning from a study that found that younger people who didn't exercise were more likely to develop diabetes in 20 years than those who stayed fit.
Report: Obesity Rates on the Rise in Nearly Half of States
Published July 2, 2009, 3:01 pm, The Online NewsHour
The U.S. is getting heavier every year, according to a report released Thursday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The study found that obesity rates rose in 23 out of 50 states in the past year and remained steady in all of the others.
Obesity Rate on the Rise: Wisconsin 25th
Published July 2, 2009, 9:28 am, NBC26 Green Bay
Washington, D.C., July 1, 2009 - Wisconsin has the 25th highest rate of adult obesity in the nation, at 26.0 percent and the 12th lowest of overweight youths (ages 10-17) at 27.9 percent, according to a new report by Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
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