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Junk food aimed at kids 'not fit for animals'
Dublin :: Ireland | about 8 hours ago
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Prof Ivan Perry of UCC warned that obesity presents societal challenges akin to global warming and said it would be naive to assume that the issue could be resolved through tackling individual behaviour alone. In a lecture “Obesity: A Modern Plague” at...
Tags: Prof Perry, Ivan Perry, food production, Ireland, Dublin, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Soft drink, Metabolic disorders, Social Issues, Hospitality Recreation, Childhood obesity, Epidemiology of obesity, Body shape, Nutrition, Bariatrics
Children's program does fat lot of good
Sydney :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility The Active After-School Communities program, run by the Australian Sports Commission, is intended to combat rising childhood obesity rates by encouraging school children to take part in exercise classes. But obesity experts have rounded on the program,...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Metabolic disorders, Social Issues, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Childhood obesity, Body shape, Body mass index, Nutrition, Bariatrics
Fat chance
Geelong :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility The numbers are extraordinary and deeply worrying: among Victorian two-year-olds, one in every six is overweight or obese — and for children aged 3 the proportion is almost one in five. Startling as these figures are, they reflect the state of Australian...
Tags: Dr de Silva-Sanigorski, healthy eating, physical active, children aged, early childhood, care centres, Australian, health services, Geelong, data collect, Australia, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Metabolic disorders, Social Issues, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Childhood obesity, Body shape, Body mass index, Nutrition, Bariatrics
Day care centers turn on TV for toddlers, study finds
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Maybe they are, but they could also be spending a chunk of their day watching TV or DVDs. New research published in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics found that kids in child care settings could be watching as much as 2.4 hours of television...
Tags: Dr. Dimitri Christakis, Center for Child Health, based programs, watch tv, cares centers, Atlanta, Health Medical Pharma, Educational stages, Day care, Childcare, Childhood, Nicholas A. Christakis, Childhood obesity, Early childhood education, Child care
Kids should get moving to avoid obesity
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility Vigorous exercise may be an especially good way to keep kids lean, but sitting around, in and of itself, doesn't appear to have a major role in making them fat, new research shows. Nevertheless, there are still plenty of reasons to avoid too much sedentary...
Tags: vigorous activity, moderate physical, Dr. Ulf Ekelund, waist size, physical activity, United Kingdom, Cambridge, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Metabolic disorders, Childhood obesity, Body shape, Nutrition, Sedentary lifestyle, Physical exercise, Bariatrics
Gloria West column: Children need proper diet, exercise to avoid health problems
Charlotte :: NC :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility An obese child is more susceptible than his peers to diabetes, heart disease and asthma. It could lead to sheer misery. A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association researched the physical activity, doctor visits and...
Tags: Renee Priebe, Charlotte, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Metabolic disorders, Hospitality Recreation, Triathlon, Individual sports, Childhood obesity, Body shape, Nutrition, Bariatrics
Measures included in the alcohol pricing legislation
London :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility Introduce a lowest price for every unit of alcohol sold in Scotland...This would raise the price of some supermarket own-label vodka by 50 per cent and strong cider by 100 per cent. Allow local licensing boards to ban so-called "irresponsible promotions"...
Tags: Scotland, United Kingdom, London, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Sexually transmitted disease, Health Medical Pharma, HIV/AIDS, Human sexuality, Drug culture, Overweight, Public house, Childhood obesity, Body shape, Nutrition, Bariatrics, Public health, Sexual health, Syphilis, Obesity, Alcohol, Alcoholic beverages, Metabolic disorders, Social Issues, Bacterial diseases, AIDS, Hospitality Recreation, Cider, Men who have sex with men, Viral diseases, Alcoholism, Drinking culture
WIC aims to fight obesity as well as hunger
Columbus :: NM :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility The federal Women, Infants and Children program is a supplemental nutrition program for breastfeeding women, women who recently had a baby and children from birth through 5 years who: To apply, call the Help Me Grow Helpline at 1-800-755-4769 for a clinic...
Tags: WIC, Ohio Department of Health, Ohio Grocers Association, Kristin Mullins, Michele Frizzell, Columbus, Body shape, Nutrition, Breastfeeding, Childhood obesity, Federal assistance in the United States, United States Department of Agriculture, Bariatrics, Health Medical Pharma
Parental Ignorance 'Is Child Obesity Risk'
London :: United Kingdom | 8 days ago
Credibility The charity said children were taking no more exercise than a decade ago and obesity levels had risen sharply since then. About one in three young people are overweight or obese, according to NHS data...The BHF, which surveyed 900 parents, is asking for...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Education, Secondhand obesity, Metabolic disorders, Social Issues, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Childhood obesity, Body shape, Nutrition, Bariatrics
Project Measure Up helps assess school fitness levels
San Antonio :: FL :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Under the watchful eye of grownups in yellow T-shirts, students at Gardendale Elementary School in the Edgewood Independent School District are counting off push-ups or twisting their arms behind them in pretzel fashion inside a noisy gymnasium.
Tags: project measure, measure ups, Nicole Rogers, South San Antonio, schools district, fitness level, San Antonio, Bariatrics, Metabolic disorders, Childhood obesity, Body mass index, Overweight, Body shape, Nutrition, Obesity, Health Medical Pharma, Education
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