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BILLINGS- Students across Billings, and the entire country, were dancing Thursday and their boogies had nothing to do with the upcoming summer vacation. At Riverside Middle School, around 100 students who participate in the Fuel Up To Play 60 Campaign at the school (which promotes exercise and healthy eating in students) also took on the First Lady’s dance challenge. Back in 2011, a White House Task Force report found that 1 in 3 children in the United States are obese, a statistic which is part of a climbing trend toward obese children. A statewide effort trying to promote exercise activity among Montana children is the Big Sky Fit Kids Program, which Big Sky Elementary School in Billings has used for the past four years. In the past, the students have chosen to walk or jog during that time, but on Thursday they decided they wanted to line dance. Apartments in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Attorneys in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Auto Dealers in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Auto Parts in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Auto Repair in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Beauty Salons in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Car Rental in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Dentists in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Doctors in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Flowers in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Hotels in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Insurance in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Loans in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Mortgages in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Movers in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Pizza in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Realtors in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Restaurants in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Storage in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Tax Preparation in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Travel in Kalispell Ò |Ò  Featured Ò |Ò  More. Read Childhood Obesity

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LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas firefighters are on the scene of a blaze near Jones Boulevard and Smoke Ranch. A new company launches in Downtown Vegas and aims to help create jobs within the local economy by providing services to movie and television producers from out-of-state looking to film in Nevada. LAS VEGAS — The intersection of Third Street and Gass Avenue is closed to traffic because of an accident involving two cars. A recent study by the National Highway Safety Administration found one of the leading cause of accidents nationwide is failing to use your turn signal. LAS VEGAS — The family of the man attacked during the murder of his wife and daughter says his condition is improving. The family of the man attacked during the murder of his wife and daughter says his condition is improving. Read Childhood Obesity

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of overweight and obese children has more than tripled over the past three decades in some groups. Clear Channel Media & Entertainment has long led the industry in both the quantity and breadth of community service programs at the local, regional and national levels. Program resources include parent and youth curricula; additional tip sheets and tools; guidance for community organizations on partnership outreach and participant recruitment/retention; and technical assistance/training, designed to enable communities and partners to adapt the program to fit their specific needs. The Ad Council has produced, distributed and promoted thousands of public service campaigns on behalf of non-profit organizations and government agencies in issue areas of health & safety, community and education. Read Childhood Obesity

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A new study appearing in the May issue of the journal Pediatrics offers the latest evidence that less affluent children are faring worse when it comes to obesity. Although the children in the study broadly resemble their peers nationwide (the ones with health insurance, at least), the study was limited to just 14 health centers in and around Boston, all of which are part of the same health-care network. The overall rate was unchanged from 2001 to 2007, they found, but only because the declines among teens from middle- and high-income families were canceled out by a sharp increase among those living in poverty, especially the boys. Compared to more affluent children, Wen says, kids on Medicaid may be less likely to live in neighborhoods where they can play and exercise safely outdoors, and their caretakers are less likely to have access to supermarkets selling fresh, healthy foods. In a recent study, also published in Pediatrics, Suglia found that preschool-age girls in big cities were more likely to be obese if they’d undergone stressful experiences such as witnessing household violence, having a mother who was depressed or abusing alcohol or drugs, or living in a tenuous housing situation. The encouraging signs among preschoolers reported in national surveys and in Wen’s study may reflect the widespread attention paid to obesity in recent years, says Kristine Madsen, M. Read Childhood Obesity

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Childhood obesity and the need for healthy school lunches has been a hot topic across the country and locally for the past several months, and federal regulation will soon force permanent changes in all public schools. Over the next few years, federal regulations will make those types of changes permanent across the country. In the past we basically said here’s a tray and this is what there is today,” Schneider says. But Registered Dietitian Pat McCoy says having those healthy options at school doesn’t necessarily translate at home. But it’s not the school’s responsibility, it’s the parent,” McCoy says. She says without changes at home, school and government efforts can only reach so far. Read Childhood Obesity

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Here in Pittsburgh, kids can follow a roadmap to healthier lives offered by the Sarah Heinz House and the program Kids of STEEL presented by Giant Eagle, part of the Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon. Held after school and on Saturdays during the school year, the program provides more than 1,000 kids from primarily low-income families with sports, swimming lessons and fitness activities, healthful meals, and nutrition education at the nonprofit’s headquarters on Pittsburgh’s North Side. Aetna has provided $10,000 to support the Saturday, May 5th Toyota of Pittsburgh Kids Marathon, part of Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon, and its related effort, Kids of STEEL presented by Giant Eagle, a three-year-old, school-based program in the Pittsburgh area that promotes physical fitness and healthy eating. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional, voluntary and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical management capabilities, Medicaid health care management services and health information technology services. The Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon is a nonprofit organization that promotes the love of long-distance running and enhances community involvement in fitness activities through high quality events open to a wide variety of ages and ability levels. Our events will consistently serve the needs of our runners and our sponsors; will engage and reward our volunteers; will enhance the economic well-being of the Pittsburgh region; will partner with public and private entities to create the best possible event experience; and partner with appropriate charitable organizations to give back to the community. Read Childhood Obesity

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The Reuters analysis was based on records from the Federal Election Commission, the Secretary of the Senate and the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks money in politics. In the weeks after the meetings, proponents of tougher standards said, neither the president nor the First Lady spoke out for the work on healthy food guidelines that had been drafted by the administration’s own agencies. In 2009, Congress passed a measure proposed by Harkin and Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) to ask the FTC and three other agencies — the CDC, the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration — to draft voluntary nutrition standards for children’s food marketing. Comparing the last three years of the Bush administration to the first three years of Obama’s, total campaign contributions from the more than 50 food and beverage groups and companies analyzed by Reuters were about the same. Read Childhood Obesity

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Send a letter to the editor to voice your opinion. Maps listing homicides or suspected homicides in EBR Parish for 2011 and 2010. Current gas prices in BR area. Copyright © 2012, Capital City Press LLC • 7290 Bluebonnet Blvd. Read Childhood Obesity

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The rates of obesity in children under the age of 6 in eastern Massachusetts declined during the period between 2004 and 2008, according to a new study. However, the smaller decrease in obesity prevalence in Medicaid-insured children suggests that the coming years may see a widening of socioeconomic disparities in childhood obesity ,” wrote the study’s authors. Targeting obesity prevention efforts at the youngest children — those under 6 years old — may be the most effective, as children at that age are still predominantly influenced by their parents and what their parents eat, and their lifestyle habits are just developing and may be easier to change, according to the study. During the period between 1999 and 2003, the researchers found that the rates of obesity remained relatively stable among the children. The researchers said they don’t know exactly what caused this drop, but suspect that reduced maternal smoking during pregnancy, increased rates of breast-feeding, more limited television advertising of sweet foods to young children, and increased screening and counseling for childhood obesity may have all played a role. Text message prompts can help patients living with long term conditions stick to their treatment programmes - at least in the short term - indicates a review of the available evidence, published online in the Journal of th . Read Childhood Obesity

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For many patients, gallbladder disease and its accompanying symptoms are preventable, but you wouldnât know it from the patients whose parents prefer to book the quick fix of the scalpel instead of the slow, but less invasive route of lifestyle change. By the time a patient gets to me, there may not be much choice about taking out the gallbladder â” but it isn’t the inevitable result of the problem, especially if gallstones havenât yet developed. Taking out the gallbladder in the face of obesity is like changing the oil in a car when the transmission is going out. Until the source of the problem is addressed, obesity will continue to ravage the rest of the child. No one knows for certain the long-term consequences of taking out the gallbladder over the lifespan of a child, but thousands are going to find out in the decades ahead. A pediatric surgeon sees the parents of obese children opting for the quick symptom fix of gallbladder surgery over the slow, difficult route of lifestyle change. Read Childhood Obesity

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