Childhood obesity
All entries tagged with Childhood obesityHow Many Calories in a School Lunch Box?
A panel from the Institute of Medicine (part of the National Academies) has recommended to the government that school-provided meals should include more fruits, vegetables and wholegrains - even though this would push costs up.
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Only One In Eight British Kids Get Enough Exercise
Figures from a recent survey by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) show that only one in eight children, aged eight to thirteen, get enough exercise. The government recommends kids are active for sixty minutes each day.
Experts have suggested that if current trends continue, two-thirds of British kids will be overweight or obese by 2050. Shockingly, the survey of 1,000 children found that a third of them were active for less than an hour a week.
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Children's Health Magazine: Brought To You By Lucky Charms!

There's a lot of buzz surrounding the launch of "Children's Health Magazine", Rodale Press' latest magazine endeavour (whose line-up includes Men's Health, Women's Health, and Prevention to name a few).
The magazine appears to have all the right ingredients for success (at least it's inaugural issue does)--including none other than the First Lady on the cover and featured in an exclusive interview within, as well as Oprah's go-to Doc Mehmet Oz, weighing in on the 5 most critical health tips for new parents.
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U.S. Healthcare Reform: Obesity Must Go
Everyone is doing a boatload of screaming about healthcare lately, and it sounds like everybody has a different vision of how to redo it.
So, no matter what side of the debate you fall on, we can all agree U.S. healthcare is broken and needs to be fixed fast, before it gets worse.
And some health experts think it all starts with obesity, curbing the epidemic early on.
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Obesity Not a Good Predictor of High Cholesterol in Kids
You don't have to be a doctor to suspect an overweight or obese person is going to have some health problems--sometimes it obvious.
Nowadays you hear a lot of reports about healthy-looking people getting heart disease, hypertension and high-cholesterol.
Turns out, same goes for kids. That's why a new study claims using obesity alone is not a good predicator of high-cholesterol in children.
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Sharp Rise in Number of Severely Obese Kids
Recently-published data indicates a sharp rise in the number of severely obese kids over the past three decades.
One in every twenty kids is now severely obese, with weight in the 99th percentile for their age group and gender.
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Active Kids Sleep Better
Bedtime - it's every parent's favorite time of day. But, when your tiny tot refuses to fall asleep, bedtime can become a nightmare for everyone.
Kids need their sleep, and parents need some downtime every day too. So, here's the solution: exercise -- no, not for you (though that's a good idea, too), but for your child.
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Aussie Parents Clueless About Their Fat Kids
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Kids are fat. It's hard not to be, every junk food, candy bar and sugary breakfast cereal has a cartoon character slapped on it.
The WHO estimates 22 million children under the age of 5 are overweight worldwide.
But, even with all these fat kids running, parents in Australia don't realize their kids are overweight.
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Clever Kids Put Pedometers on Their Dogs

It would be horrible, if it wasn't so funny. Or, maybe it would be funny, if it wasn't so horrible - children in an east London borough tricked researchers when they took the pedometers they'd been assigned to measure their activity levels, and put them on their dogs.
Baffled at why some of the obese children, who were obviously very active during the day (at least according to their pedometers), could still be obese despite all that extra exercise, researchers took a closer look.
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Food Allergies In Kids Linked To Obesity
A new study looking at data from 4,000 kids suggests there is a link between food allergies and obesity.
The research was led by Dr. Cindy Visness, and published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
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Parents' Healthy Eating Has Little Influence on Children
Apparently the apple does fall far from the tree - at least when it comes to eating apples.
In what researchers have called a "surprising" study, it seems as though mom and dad's healthy eating doesn't rub off on their offspring as much as once thought. The study, authored by Dr. Youfa Wang, and published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, showed only a weak correlation between parents and their children's eating habits.
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Ban Junk Food From Vending Machines?
Two senators, Tom Harkin and Lisa Murkowski, have introduced a bill which would see junk food (such as soda and candy) banned from vending machines in US schools.» Continue...
Are We Giving Our Kids Food Phobias?
The New York Times has published an article about children's food worries - and the dangers of pushing kids into being obsessively worried about eating healthily. If you check food labels, insist on organic produce and ban candy and soda... could you be doing your child more harm than good?» Continue...
Obesity Determined Before the Age of Five
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Obesity: Change We Can Believe In?
Flickr: RakkaWe've all heard by now. Barack Obama is hard at work assembling his presidential dream team. Good thing, he'll need a lot of help!
He's got a tall order. Slumping economy, foreign wars and obesity? Yup, a group at Northeastern University wants the president-elect to tackle obesity too.
And they've sent him a long list of ideas.
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Obese Children Risk Heart Disease
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Overweight 18 Month Old on French Fry Diet
At what point does bad parenting constitute abuse? Witness 18 month old Courtney Boswell, who weighs 30 lbs subsisting on French fries...and not much else.
Mother Angela, despite warnings of future health problems for her child - insists that there is nothing to worry about. Here are some of her comments:
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