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835-Pound Teen Cut Out Of House, Rolled Down Scaffolding To Get Outside

2012-05-25T14:49:15Z

LONDON -- Emergency workers who needed to take an obese teenager from her home to a hospital in Wales had to break through a wall of the residence to ...

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Tamara Sandberg: How 1 State Is Scaling Back Both Hunger And Obesity

2012-05-22T16:12:32Z

Protecting our children from obesity requires more than increased physical activity and access to healthy food at school. It also compels us to do all we can to be sure they aren't coming home to poorly stocked kitchen cabinets. Childhood obesity and hunger are related and real problems -- and both are also really solvable.

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Recess Could Become Mandatory In Illinois Schools

2012-05-22T16:39:13Z

A bill passed by the Illinois Senate earlier this month will make recess mandatory in schools statewide if Gov. Pat Quinn and the House follow suit an...

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William Anderson, MA, LMHC: The Evil Gender Bias of Obesity and Weight Gain

2012-05-21T14:00:39Z

The obesity bias is far nastier for women than men -- overwhelmingly so. It is insidious and needs to be pointed out and stopped.

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The Condition Nearly 1 In 4 Teens Are Being Diagnosed With

2012-05-21T00:04:25Z

The number of teens in the U.S. with diabetes or prediabetes has skyrocketed in the last decade, jumping from 9 to 23 percent, new data finds.

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David Katz, M.D.: The Problem With Our Approach To The Obesity Epidemic

2012-05-19T11:00:03Z

Fundamentally, we have converted a world in which calories were relatively scarce and hard to get and physical activity unavoidable into a world where physical activity is scarce and hard to get and calories are unavoidable.

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Robert Doar: We Need a Stronger Message in the Fight Against Obesity

2012-05-18T17:48:22Z

Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. It is time for the federal government to take a second look at this issue.

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Jennifer Siebel Newsom: Finding Solutions to the Challenges Facing Young Women Today

2012-05-17T12:00:46Z

If we really want to see a better tomorrow for our girls, we must include them in the national debates around gender equality today.

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Daniel J. Schultz: 'Weight of the Nation': To Win, We Have to Lose

2012-05-17T16:37:59Z

The Weight of the Nation beautifully encapsulates all the biological, environmental, and economic variables that promoted my own obesity, as well as breaking down the answers and solutions that helped me lose and maintain my weight loss.

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Bettina Elias Siegel: Congressman Jared Polis Revisits 'Pizza = School Food Vegetable'

2012-05-16T22:42:56Z

The agricultural spending bill that gutted the pizza rule will expire at the end of the current fiscal year, i.e, September 2012, creating an opportunity to revisit the issue.

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William Anderson, MA, LMHC: Weight Loss and the Solution to the Obesity Epidemic

2012-05-16T15:43:03Z

To solve the obesity epidemic, the most important thing you can do is to solve your own weight problem for your own reasons.

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Mark R. Kennedy: Graduate Economics: Balancing the Budget Without Benefit Cuts or Tax Increases

2012-05-16T14:54:54Z

Providing incentives to my children helped me to balance my checkbook. By doing the same, America could remain solvent with a lot less pain to beneficiaries and taxpayers.

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Suzanne Merkelson: This Is Why You're Fat: The 2012 Farm Bill and the Real Obesity Lobby

2012-05-16T12:42:44Z

The food and beverage industry has been relentless in Washington lately, more than doubling their spending in Washington during the past three years, completely outpacing public interest groups looking out for children's health.

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Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.: A Matter of Weight

2012-05-15T17:31:44Z

As difficult as it is to accept, this obesity epidemic requiring a national conversation has to be done person by person by person, with as much collective compassion, creativity, insight and patience as humanly possible.

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Susan Blumenthal, M.D.: The Weight of the Nation

2012-05-15T13:31:03Z

We now must act boldly to combat the obesity epidemic. There are many opportunities across the lifespan, but it will require a shift in social norms and an unprecedented social movement for obesity prevention.

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Highlights From Our 'Weight Of The Nation' Twitter Chat

2012-05-15T12:14:03Z

To win, we have to lose. So reads the slogan of "The Weight Of The Nation," the four-part documentary that premiered on HBO last night, and continues ...

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Linda Bacon, Ph.D., MA, MA: Bread and Circus (Hold the Bread): Weight of the Nation Deserves an Imperial Thumbs Down

2012-05-14T18:40:29Z

By focusing on health, we can address real health concerns, giving both fat and thin people the support they deserve and avoiding stigmatizing people and worsening the problem.

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Michele Simon: More Empty Recommendations on Junk Food Marketing to Children

2012-05-14T14:56:34Z

The only thing getting accelerated is lobbying dollars into politicians' pockets. And kids' poor health.

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Mark Hyman, MD: Sugar Babies: The Rise Of 'Adult Onset' Diabetes In Children

2012-05-12T10:17:47Z

What are you doing in your home, your family, in your schools and communities to end the attack on our children and our nation's future? We have the power to take back our health.

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Massachusetts Backs Off School Bake Sale Ban

2012-05-11T10:03:55Z

BOSTON -- Cupcakes, brownies and other baked goodies will be spared the chopping block at Massachusetts schools after Gov. Deval Patrick backed down f...

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Kathy Freston: Could Chicken Be Contributing To The Obesity Epidemic?

2012-05-11T08:09:36Z

Virtually all commercially-available chickens now have what many call the "obese gene," which makes birds gain weight quickly to speed up production from birth to slaughter.

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Linda Novick O'Keefe: How to Address the Obesity Epidemic: Start Young

2012-05-09T20:23:47Z

Access to fresh groceries changed everything for Elijah and his mom. For many families in Los Angeles and other metro areas across the country, things are not as easy -- but they are getting better.

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Advocates Fight Fat: 'School Setting Does Not Support Health'

2012-05-09T14:54:00Z

* Nonprofits want greater role for U.S. Education Department * Health needs to be integrated into school policies -groups ...

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David Katz, M.D.: Nutrition: Where Health Meets The Real World

2012-05-08T20:00:16Z

When it comes to nutrition and the monumental influence it has on our health, the rubber hits the road wherever people and food come together. Kitchens and cafeterias. Schools and workplaces. Supermarkets and restaurants.

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Dina R. Rose: Do Kids Need to Snack? What the French Know That We Don't

2012-05-08T13:48:07Z

Americans try to prevent hunger. The French cultivate it.

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