![]() Daily Mail | Growing up fat is no fun: Childhood obesity is on the rise and parents ... Daily Mail Apart from all the social and emotional problems of being a fat kid, health risks also abound. Childhood and teenage obesity is dangerously on the rise throughout the country. In addition to the risk of early death, obese teenagers are also at an ... |
![]() AFP | Baby weight: finger foods better than spoon-feeding, study suggests The Guardian They compared the diets of 92 infants who were following "baby-led" feeding with those of 63 spoon-fed children. More children in the spoon-fed group were overweight or obese than those in the baby-led group. The finding was not explained by ... Solid 'finger food' may help babies avoid obesity: study Baby knows best! Spoon feeding 'makes babies fatter' |
![]() Mirror.co.uk | Real life: I tried to binge eat to get a gastric bypass but have now lost six ... Mirror.co.uk by Steve Myall, Daily Mirror 7/02/2012 A year ago, Darin gorged so he would be fat enough for a gastric bypass – but then he found a way to conquer his food demons.. Exactly a year ago, Darin McCloud was overweight – and simply desperate to lose it, ... Gastric Bypass 'is not a cosmetic surgery' |
Sugar, cheese and other dietary demons Washington Post (blog) They of course suggest some kind of tax, and they even go so far as to propose an age restriction for buying sugar-sweetened beverages, with kids under, say, 17, barred from buying sodas. Ending government subsidies of sugary foods could help, too, ... |
85 pounds lighter and couldn't be happier about turning 40 Baltimore Sun I am no longer overweight, or heavy, or obese. I can walk into almost any store and pick something off the rack. On Feb. 18, 2011, a few months after my second child was born, I was pushing 250 pounds and wearing a size 22 or extra, extra large. |
![]() Red and Black | Anti-obesity ads could cause extreme results Red and Black Those words appear on large billboards underneath a black and white photo of an overweight child as part of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's initiative to end childhood obesity in Georgia. In fact, many of the captions on the print ads closely ... |
Get Fit!: 28-day challenge teaches participants how to make better food choices Visalia Times-Delta "That's why a lot of these kids get up and they're all excited in the morning and by the time ten o'clock comes around they're not even paying attention in school, getting in trouble because you didn't feed them the right food," he said. |
The Failure to Prioritize Our Children Huffington Post (blog) How can we afford to give huge tax breaks to the rich and build ever more weapons of mass destruction but cannot ensure that our children live in homes where there is both food, and healthy food at that? It doesn't have to be this way. |
New nutrition standards for school meals Seacoastonline.com Nearly one out of every three children in this country is at potential risk for these preventable diseases owing to being overweight or obese. Unless corrective steps are taken, it is believed that today's children could have shorter lifespans than ... Who really needs schooling? |
Obesity epidemic shows no hint of shrinking in the United States Southeast Missourian The latest reports -- one on children and the other on adults -- focused on obesity, meaning a body mass index of at least 30. But the numbers of adults and children who were overweight, with a BMI of between 25 and 29, also remained high. |