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Local group gets grant to fight child obesity
Savannah Morning News, Ga.The local business coalition bent on cutting the fat in Chatham County children just received a healthy funding grant to make it happen. Healthy living organizations the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and United Health Foundation this week awarded the...Tags: Environmental Issues, Children's Health, Conservation, Family, Employment Opportunities
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Got diet milk?
In the face of troubling childhood obesity rates and what it sees as low milk consumption rates, the dairy industry says it has a solution: Offer kids flavored milk that uses low-calorie artificial sweeteners. The only problem, industry...
Tags: Elgin, Children's Health, Pediatrics, Naperville, Family
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May 4 Letters: Obesity and self control, Casemate Museum, teen sex, immigration
Living responsibly As a very young child my "baby fat" was accepted and seen as cute. A few years later, starting school, I was taller but that baby fat was also growing, add a few more years with the additional weight and my parents consulted the...Tags: Immigration, Museums, Career and Workplace, Arts and Culture, Labor Legislation
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READER SUBMITTED: American Heart Association And Aetna Team Up To Bring Macdonough Elementary Teaching Garden
MiddletownThe American Heart Association announces that Macdonough Elementary School in Middletown will receive a Teaching Garden thanks to Aetna and it's team of nurses. The school's Garden Club will receive the materials needed to plant a real-life laboratory...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Nursing, Schools, Aetna Inc., Health and Medical Professionals
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EDITORIAL: Gov. Christie latest 'loser'
Boston HeraldGov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, an able Republican practitioner of the in-your-face school of political combat, has tackled his obesity with surgery -- for the sake of his wife and four children, he said; although various pundits insist it's to clear...Tags: Executive Branch, Politics, Botox (drug), Government, Regional Authority
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Changing the future of Yuma's health
The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.In view of escalating health-care costs and other challenges, how can the community improve its health? More than 100 of Yuma County's leaders, health providers and elected officials gathered Thursday to engage in dialogue and try to come up with...Tags: Body Mass Index, Diabetes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health and Medical Professionals, Health and Safety at School
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Cancer doctor Otis Brawley urges MCG graduates to focus on disease prevention
The Augusta Chronicle, Ga.Even with a distinguished career and a top position at the American Cancer Society, Dr. Otis Brawley conceded he was envious of the new crop of physicians emerging from the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University that will benefit from...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Otis Brawley, Diabetes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health and Medical Professionals
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Sitting ducks
Khaleej TimesSitting for long hours is really bad for you; in fact, it may be killing you. It's time to stand up and take note of what it's really doing to your body Have you ever thought that something as innocuous as the everyday habit of sitting could be...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Attack, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Pilates, Diabetes
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The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va., Donnie Johnston column
The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.THE OTHER day, I watched a spokesman for Coca-Cola talk about what his company plans to do to help curb the growing obesity problem in the United States. He said reducing the risk of obesity is the responsibility of business, government and society....Tags: Turnips, Politics, Sales, Coca-Cola Co., Government
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Burnsville-Eagan-Savage schools: New front in obesity fight
St. Paul Pioneer PressBernadette "Bernie" Bien is proof that school nursing is about more than belly aches and nosebleeds. Nurses can be key players in the effort to promote a healthy lifestyle to schoolchildren. "We are always teaching students healthy behaviors," Bien...Tags: Body Mass Index, Nursing, Physical Fitness and Exercise, National Institutes of Health, Health and Medical Professionals
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Mental health, obesity, health education named top priorities
St. Joseph News-Press, Mo.A health assessment recently released by Heartland Health names mental health, obesity and health education as the community's top health needs. Heartland culled data from local and national agencies and surveys of community groups for its 2012-2013...Tags: Body Mass Index, Mental Health, Diabetes, Hospitals and Clinics, Weight
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Coca-Cola anti-obesity promises include no advertising to kids
Coca-Cola is making major promises to fight obesity – ceasing advertisements directed at kids, slapping calorie counts on all its packaging – as the soda giant stares down a rising tide of concern over sugar-stuffed beverages. On Wednesday,...
Tags: Global Expansion, New Products, Coca-Cola Co., Michael Bloomberg, PepsiCo Inc.
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