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Alliance for a Healthier Generation Offers Family-Focused Solutions ... - Forbes

Alliance Kicks off Go Healthy Month; Launches a New Tool to Help Kids Take Charge of Their Health WHO: Timothy J. Gardner, M.D., FAHA, President, American Heart Association, Medical Director, The Center for Heart & Vascular Health at Christiana Care ...

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In Electronic Age, Sports Stores Compete for Youth - The State Journal

A question for many kids today is if they want to play a pick-up game of football, do they go down to the park and play with their friends or do they pick up their video game controllers and plug in Madden NFL '09? Sporting goods retailers hope they ...

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Early ear infections may pack on pounds later - MSNBC

Adults who struggle with a sweet tooth or battle a lifelong craving for bacon may have something more than weak willpower to blame — at least those with a history of chronic childhood ear infections. A series of new studies presented this month by ...

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Lack of veggies can lead girls to a life of obesity - Edmonton Journal

TORONTO, July 31 (Reuters) - Many teenage girls are not getting the nutrients they need to ensure healthy development, putting them at risk for weight-related problems and cardiovascular disease. Female adolescence is an important time for setting up ...

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Today's Herald - Calgary Herald

A total of 15 deaths in Canada have now been linked to listeriosis, public health... What you've heard is true -- breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It gives kids and teens the energy they need to perform at school and helps adults get ...

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Fresh foods, fresh minds - Brattleboro Reformer

WESTMINSTER -- As children throughout Windham County return to school this week, some will find carrot and celery sticks on their desks along with the pencils and books. Three Windham County school districts have been awarded fresh fruit and ...

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'Fat map' reveals how weighty issue of obesity is spread across ... - Scotsman

This means they have been officially diagnosed as being obese, a condition that places them at risk of serious health consequences such as diabetes, heart and circulatory disease and shortened life expectancy.

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Some people may benefit from extra weight - Evening Star

There are lots of confusing bits of information out there about obesity and its health effects. In fact, I recently read an article urging physicians to consider obesity “a disease state.” The list of diseases associated with being overweight ...

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Doctors warn: Check fat in that 'power shake’ - Greensboro News & Record

We hear a lot about what overweight Americans eat, but a group of physicians has uncovered alarming evidence as to a related question: What have we been drinking? After a look in this space last Wednesday at the War Between the Doughnuts — Krispy ...

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All News... Bring on the carrots - we're all getting fatter! - Kent Online

People in Medway are the fattest in Kent – and among the wobbliest in the country. According to a 'fat map', almost one in 10 people living there are obese, meaning they have a body mass index of more than 30. The findings by Dr Foster Research put ...

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