Jan
13
Topic: Childhood Obesity News - Michelle Obama to lead Obama administration battle against childhood obesity - Chicago Sun-Times (blog)
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Select a publication or site Chicago Sun-Times The Beacon News The Courier News The SouthtownStar The Herald News Lake County News-Sun The Naperville Sun Post-Tribune YourSeason. WASHINGTON–First Lady Michelle Obama in 2010 will become the lead Obama White House spokesman in an administration-wide battle against childhood obesity, taking on her first substantial role in advancing an Obama initiative. Obama said dealing with childhood obesity will be a “major” project for her this year, and did not rule out testifying before Congress, if need be. More details will be unveiled in the coming weeks; she said she was looking to forge public, private and non-profit partnerships as the epidemic of childhood obesity increases and as legislation overseeing federal-funded school lunch programs is up for renewal this year. Michelle Obama says “Harry Reid had no need to apologize to me, because I know Harry Reid” was the previous entry in this blog. Michelle Obama says State Dinner party crashers are “footnote” to a “phenomenal dinner” is the next entry in this blog. Read Childhood Obesity
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Jan
12
Kingston selected for childhood obesity prevention program - Mid-Hudson News- Topic: Childhood Obesity News
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Copyright © 2009 Mid-Hudson News Network, a division of Statewide News Network, Inc. KINGSTON – Kingston has been selected to receive a $360,000 grant over four years from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities program. The program will be administered through Ulster county Cooperative Extension and will seek to curb childhood obesity to encourage Kingston to become street safe for walking and biking to school, among other projects, said coordinator Kristen Wilson. They will also work with the schools to review their vending machine policies, snack bar policies and the snack foods that are available. Cornell Cooperative Extension is the lead agency for the local program, which will have a number of other participants. Read Childhood Obesity
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Jan
11
Guest Column: The 2010 Agenda: Public Health - Texas Tribune(Childhood Obesity News)
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The second is that the rates of childhood and adult obesity here continue to rise; with the shifting racial and ethnic profile of the state, they rise faster here than in many other parts of the country. The demand for care and the cost of care for seniors will compete with the demand and cost of care for the increasing number of Texans who are obese and, as a result, have also been or will be diagnosed with heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or some forms of arthritis. There is no doubt that insuring more Texans will be an expensive proposition; however, for a state that takes pride in its Christian values and sensibilities, as it well should, universal insurance is a moral imperative in the spirit of The Good Samaritan. Furthermore, the cost associated with increasing the number of insured Texans could be lessened by banning indoor smoking in all public places and assuring that all schools have coordinated health programs that improve the quality of food in the schools, make physical education a daily expectation, and incorporate healthy lifestyle lessons into the daily curriculum. Fewer myocardial infarctions are good for families (there’s less grief and anguish), good for employers (less sick leave, disability, and medical care costs), and good for medical care systems (less of a cost to the public system and less demand for care in sometimes overcrowded emergency room settings). The cost of universal coordinated school health programs is on the order of $10 to $15 per child per year, in contrast to a cost of approximately $1,000 per year for medical care. Read Childhood Obesity
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Jan
10
Child obesity level 'unacceptable' - The Press Association- Childhood Obesity News
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But Labour’s Lord Pendry, who boxed for the RAF and is President of the Football Foundation, said that the situation was not “hopeless”. Opening a debate on the subject, he highlighted the increasing nature of the problem but said the Government and other organisations were taking steps to address it. An NHS report had found that 16% of girls and 17% of boys aged between two and 15 are classed as obese, he said. A number of organisations are doing good work and we are seeing worrying trends begin to reverse with record investment in our young people. Lord Addington, for Liberal Democrats, said that childhood obesity was a subject “we have got to carry on coming back to”. He called on the Government to examine which of its programmes are most effective at tackling obesity and encouraging people to take up exercise. Read Childhood Obesity
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