Obese Kids May Face Heart Risks Later

The chicken nuggets are coming home to roost. By the time today's teens are middle age, the rate of heart disease could be 16 percent higher because of the extra pounds they are carrying around today, a U.S. study suggests.

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Program to Fight Obesity in Kids Expands

Ivonne Borrero liked that her son's teacher was pushing him to do good work. She just didn't like the rewards: The pizza parties and Burger King coupons weren't helping 11-year-old Jose's waistline.

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Kids Have Trouble Keeping Weight Off

Heavy children who lost weight kept the pounds off better through weight maintenance follow-up, but even that wasn't terribly successful over two years, researchers reported.

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Study Predicts Rise in Overweight Children

The number of overweight children worldwide will increase significantly by the end of the decade, and scientists expect profound impacts on everything from public health care to economies, a study published Monday said.

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Fast food giant McDonald's has received three servings of shame from parents in the annual children's food marketing awards.

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20 Worst Kids Foods in America - as well what restaurants are the best and worst for kids. It also looks at the worst sweetened cereal for kids - the 20th worth is i cup of Cap'n Crunch with 146 calories, 2 g fat (1 g saturated), 16 g sugars, 1 g fiber.

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Restaurants are no more kind to our children's health and well-being than they are to our own. Here's a list to help your family make smarter choices today for a healthier tomorrow.

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Restaurants are no more kind to our children's health and well-being than they are to our own. Here's a list to help your family make smarter choices today for a healthier tomorrow.

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Your approach to a child's physical development can affect him for years to come. Make sure you get it right.

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Nourish Interactive offers free healthy games for kids and online nutrition education tools for families and teachers. The fun way for families and kids to learn about healthy nutrition and making healthy food choices.

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A national focus on childhood obesity is "overdue," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday at a government meeting.

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After the tragic death of her brother who was overweight, this woman quit her job and obtained $30,000 in grants to build a fitness center at a local middle school. It provides fitness and nutrition education to 350 students a year.

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Re "Mother's Fight Against Junk Food Puts a School on Edge," by Susan Dominus (Big City column, June 16):

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Good news: Diet and exercise aren't the only ways to prevent childhood obesity. Research suggests that just putting your kids to bed earlier may help.

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In a very limited study conducted Amsterdam researchers think that forced participation in physical activity will have little impact on the childhood obesity epidemic.

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"I think it is the fat in your blood," replied the 9-year-old from Atlanta, Georgia. Not only has she studied heart disease in science class, but she's also already tested positive for high cholesterol.

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Children and Our School Meal System

When you think of the following words, what comes to mind: chicken, tomatoes, breakfast, healthy? I bet it isn't nuggets, unripe, pizza, or fried.

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State Health Commissioner Richard Daines has become the point man for one of the more controversial of Gov. David Paterson's revenue-generating budget proposals: The so-called "fat tax" - an 18 percent levy on sugary drinks like non-diet soda.

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Five Reasons to Raise Your Voice for Healthy School Food

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The obesity crisis could deepen as the womb chemicals of increasingly overweight mothers set their baby's future risk, say US scientists.

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The WP reports: An epidemic of obesity is compromising the lives of millions of American children, with burgeoning problems that reveal how much more vulnerable young bodies are to the toxic effects of fat.

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This is a NBC Nightly News interview about a sucessful childhood obesity program in a small less than affluent community . Great lessons for cities, towns and schools everywhere on how to reverse this trend. Program is called Shape Up Somerville.

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What saddens me in that so many people complain that they have to work but if you look at the extravagent lifestyles you can see that if they were truly committed to their child they would buy a smaller home, shop at the Salvation Army for their kids clothes instead of the Gap,  …

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Talk Shows Exploit Obese Children

Sometimes I inadvertently have my television on a channel where a certain talk show comes on.

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A growing epidemic of childhood obesity worldwide will lead to an increase of premature heart attacks and strokes, say two studies out today. The very different studies offer twin perspectives on the potential impact of childhood obesity.

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he number of obese children will grow dramatically in the coming years and so will their death rates from heart disease, according to a pair of studies from the United States and Denmark published on Wednesday.

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BACKGROUND: Somerville Mass. is home to about 80,000 people. Located in Eastern Massachusetts, Somerville is in Middlesex County. Tufts University sits on the line between Somerville and the neighboring city of Medford. In 1917, Marshmallow Fluff was invented in Somerville.

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The annoyingly catchy song at Disneyland's "It's a Small World" attraction reminds riders that "the oceans are wide." Whether they're deep enough is another story.

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In an effort to discourage childhood obesity, London Santas are slim this year....

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