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Web sites launched to fight childhood - Tri Valley Herald(Childhood Obesity News)

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A 2005 study found that 25 percent of San Mateo County’s youth are overweight, prompting the Get Healthy San Mateo County Task Force — a collection of teachers, health department officials and community groups — to find ways to reduce the problem. Nationwide, the child obesity rate has more than doubled in the past three decades for children ages 2 to 5 and has more than tripled for 6- to 11-year-olds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The site breaks out information in six subsections — community, parents, health professionals, educators, preschool/childcare staff and after-school coordinators — to match the input from the six committees that comprise the task force. Representatives from the University of California’s Master Gardener Volunteer Program were at the launch to educate teachers about starting gardens at their schools, and David Kane, who started a farmer’s market in East Palo Alto in June, was on hand making smoothies with a bicycle-powered blender. Read Childhood Obesity

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