![]() Akron Beacon Journal | Feeling left out could lead kids to opt out of physical activity Akron Beacon Journal “It could create a scenario where if you're an overweight or obese child, that ostracism could reduce your physical activity. As you get more ostracized, you get heavier, you get more ostracized because you got heavier and things get worse and worse. |
![]() Houston Chronicle (blog) | Weight Loss Surgery and Kids Houston Chronicle (blog) There was an interesting article in the New York Times about a young woman who had a Lap-Band weight loss surgery after years of suffering the emotional journey of an overweight kid. The story was very honest about what to expect with this type of ... |
Boosting the economy Clinton Herald Statistics show that 40 percent of Iowa kids are overweight, and that 20 percent approach or are morbidly obese. Being overweight puts Iowa kids at risk for a variety of lifelong health problems. Iowa is a national leader in ensuring that local schools ... |
![]() Slate Magazine | Is Obesity the Government's Business? Slate Magazine 7 Doctors and public policy officials across the country have sounded the alarm about the obesity epidemic. More than one-third of American adults are obese—and another one-third are overweight—while rates for children have tripled since the 1970s. |
![]() Sydney Morning Herald | Obesity games: the bigger they are, the more we like it Sydney Morning Herald Sixteen morbidly obese ''unattached'' Australians compete to lose weight for a cash prize and the promise of companionship. They have a lot of love to give. ''To be obese, lonely and loveless, that's heartbreaking,'' personal trainer Tiffiny ''the ... |
![]() Los Angeles Times | Static growth in obesity rates among kids no reason to celebrate, health ... Palm Beach Post "To say it (the child obesity rate) is not going down, I don't find that comforting." Nearly one in every three children ages 2 through 19 years of age were either overweight or obese in 2009-2010, according to the data collected by the US Centers for ... Obesity: CHOA Makes a Stand |
![]() Sun-Sentinel | With paintings of flesh, Saville's exhibit has strokes of brilliance Sun-Sentinel The British painter seems to wield her paintbrush with the kind of limber dexterity that's out to violate the medium of oil painting itself, cascading splashes and stains across the canvas in her unabashed depictions of morbidly-obese women laid naked ... |
BRIEFLY: Feb. 1 Wicked Local PLYMOUTH – Looking for something for the kids to do during school vacation? The Old Colony Y offers vacation camp at Camp Clark during February and April. Email Stacey Ryan at sryan@oldcolonyymca.org for more information. In addition, Camp Clark is now ... |
![]() National Post (blog) | Fat, obese and other dirty words for weight problems National Post (blog) Related War on obesity: Hospital now offers drastic option for obese 12-year-olds War on obesity: Does policing snacks have any effect on children's weight? Barbara Kay: Antidote needed for obesity disease Video: Stop Childhood Obesity: Bobby The ... |
TO YOUR HEALTH: Feb. 1 Wicked Local Weight loss surgery has been endorsed by a consensus panel convened by the National Institutes of Health as the only effective means of inducing significant long-term weight loss for the vast majority of patients with morbid obesity. |