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Hugh Price and Oliver Sloman: A new army for the war on childhood … - Dallas Morning News- Childhood Obesity News

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The good news is that a survey released last fall by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the nation’s schools have made considerable improvements in nutrition, fitness and health over the last six years. Our idea is to mobilize retired physicians and health care workers to serve their country by joining in a crusade to combat childhood obesity, especially in those communities and among the children where the problem is most acute. The Corporation for National and Community Service is the independent federal agency created in 1994 to oversee domestic community service programs like AmeriCorps, VISTA and the Senior Corps. We could create a Retired Health Care Professionals Corps under the aegis of the Senior Corps, with volunteers deployed to keep kids from becoming overweight and obese, to assist helping overweight and obese children to lose weight and adopt healthier lifestyles and to help overweight and obese youngsters manage the chronic illnesses that may develop as a result of their condition. Read Childhood Obesity

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