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David Katz, M.D.: Let's Move More Than Our Lips!

2013-05-24T16:34:47Z

This time, let's prove we aren't all talk and no action. This time, let's demonstrate we aren't hypocrites. This time, let's prove we really are a nation of loving parents and grandparents, concerned and responsible adults. This time, let's move more than our lips.

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You're Most Likely To Be Obese If..

2013-05-22T18:00:52Z

Seventy-two percent of African-American children are raised in single-parent households, according to the most recent figures from the Centers for Dis...

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James S. Marks: Congress: Do No Harm to SNAP

2013-05-21T10:06:42Z

Cutting SNAP is precisely the wrong prescription for our children and the nation's economic recovery. The notion that SNAP benefits are an overly generous handout could not be further from the truth.

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BMI Decreases The Further You Live From This

2013-05-17T18:15:56Z

Fast food isn't the only culprit in the country's growing obesity epidemic, a study from UCLA claimed earlier this year. But before letting McDonald's...

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David Katz, M.D.: Fixing Obesity

2013-05-17T12:05:04Z

As a culture, we are drowning in calories of mostly very dubious quality, and drowning in an excess of labor-saving technology. I have compared obesity to drowning before, but want to dive more deeply today into the implications for fixing what ails us.

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Jonathan Patz: Curbing Fossil Fuels to Power a Public Health Revolution

2013-05-11T10:00:04Z

The simple truth is that our antiquated energy policies, along with other industrialized nations, are disrupting the planet's climate and threating many species, including our own. But much of our economy is dependent on fossil fuels.

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David Katz, M.D.: All for One

2013-05-09T17:21:26Z

One after another of these young people talked about finding not just a community of understanding at Mindstream, but a new family. They reported finding confidence they never had, self-esteem they had lost. They found self-respect, and purpose, and passion.

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Christine Gross-Loh: Have American Parents Got It All Backwards?

2013-05-07T10:25:09Z

Though parents around the world have the same goals, American parents like me (despite our very best intentions) have gotten it all backwards.

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James S. Marks: Devaluing Our Children

2013-05-06T11:34:32Z

Economists tell us investments in our children pay off the most when made at the earliest ages. And isn't that what real investments are?

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David Katz, M.D.: Do Doctors Really Discriminate Against The Overweight?

2013-05-03T08:20:51Z

Obesity bias needs to be fixed. We are most likely to fix it when standing on a solid bedrock of understanding it at its origins. We can then replace the crude and obsolete survival-related imperatives bestowed to us in our genes, with the better angels of our nature.

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John Hoffman: Where Is The Weight of the Nation Today?

2013-05-02T16:40:53Z

Why should all families, all schools, all community leaders, all employers and all policymakers watch this series? Because it so effectively undermines our fatalism about the seemingly intractable obesity crisis.

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Marcelle Pick, OB-GYN N.P.: Hungry for Health: 4 Things I Learned While Traveling the Country

2013-05-01T04:23:14Z

Though the concepts of how to stay healthy haven't changed much, there are a few universal truths that bubble to the top of the list: Eat an organic, mostly plant-based diet. Cook from scratch if you can, and remember that food is information for our bodies.

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Michael Hobbes: Malcolm Gladwell, Proof and Soda

2013-04-29T16:43:41Z

Starting in the 1990s, governments started taking tobacco prevention seriously. They removed vending machines, taxed cigarettes, banned smoking in bars and prevented marketing anywhere kids might see it. I think in the next 10 years you'll see the same thing with soda.

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Mark Hyman, MD: 'The Cure Is In The Kitchen'

2013-04-29T08:30:50Z

Time and money are the biggest perceived obstacles to eating well. Neither is real. We have bought in to the insidious marketing messages: "You deserve a break today." Give me a break!

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Another State Explores The Soda Tax

2013-04-26T17:18:08Z

SAN FRANCISCO -- In an effort to shrink the waistlines of California citizens, Golden State lawmakers are considering a penny-per-ounce tax on all sug...

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Christina Palmer, M.D.: A Spoonful of Tax (Makes Obesity Go Down)

2013-04-24T12:15:57Z

California is suffering from an epidemic of obesity. We need meaningful, evidence-based changes in our consumption and activity patterns. A soda tax is a small but important step towards changing consumption, and should be part of a multi-faceted approach to combat obesity.

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Why Do Parents Still Urge Children To 'Clean Your Plate'?

2013-04-23T15:58:07Z

I really thought there was a Clean Plate Club.

Back when I was a kid, the country where kids-who-weren’t-me were starving was Biafra, and my par...

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Is Obesity Genetic?

2013-04-23T13:42:07Z

With one study ruling out lack of exercise as a leading cause of obesity among African-Americans, new research from Dartmouth's Institute for Quantita...

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Linda Novick O'Keefe: Kaiser Permanente's Obesity Prevention Interventions Prove to be a Success for Improving Children's Overall Health

2013-04-15T18:55:34Z

Kaiser Permanente's evaluation has shown promising results since it launched its Thriving Schools effort, aimed at helping students, staff and teachers focus on making healthy choices so that schools can become a focal point and beacon of health throughout entire communities.

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Dr. Lisa Young: Plate Size Matters

2013-04-15T11:49:02Z

A new study out of Temple University suggests that one solution to helping kids eat less is to give them smaller plates. With childhood obesity rates so high, we need effective strategies to help youngsters eat more healthfully and eat less.

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Bettina Elias Siegel: Candy and Junk Food in the Classroom: the Other 'Competitive Food'

2013-04-12T19:07:16Z

Kids spend the vast majority of their waking life at school and the food they encounter there does matter. It matters on a purely nutritional level, of course, but it also matters on an educational level.

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Healthy Weight In Kids Tied To Strict School Lunch Standards

2013-04-09T11:56:41Z

By Andrew M. Seaman
NEW YORK | Mon Apr 8, 2013 4:23pm EDT
(Reuters Health) - Strict school lunch standards that are similar to new regulations f...

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Lynn R. Goldman: The Rising Threat of Childhood Obesity

2013-04-02T14:45:31Z

As the mother of a high school student, I know how hard it can be to get teenagers to reach for wholesome snacks instead of junk food. Yet I also believe that judicious government interventions can tweak our environment in ways that make it easier to eat healthier food and get out and move.

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Adam Bosworth: We Don't Need a Nanny State: Just Pay Your Way

2013-04-02T08:14:53Z

There's a problem: hordes of people are getting sick as a result of these very poor lifestyle choices and costing the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars -- and healthy people who are still able to work are being asked to pay for it.

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Dr. Lisa Young: Most Kids' Meals at Restaurant Chains Are Unhealthy: What You Can Do

2013-04-01T14:04:05Z

As a nutritionist advocating for healthy choices and educating families on nutrition and healthy eating, here are six things you can do when taking youngsters out to eat in a restaurant.

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