Tracking Fitness Mail Tribune, OR - According to the Oregon Healthy Teen Survey, 27 percent of Oregon eleventh-graders are either overweight or close to it. Among Summit High School freshmen, ... |
States remain focused on childhood obesity NewsOK.com, OK - Schools are eager to save kids from the health miseries associated with being overweight and obese. But scaling back on popular vending machine offerings ... |
Be Your Child’s Fitness Role Model HealthNews, CA - An alarming 32 percent of US children are overweight or obese. (Odgden, Carroll and Flegal, 2008). Without intervention, these kids are in for a lifetime of ... |
Investing in Children Key to Righting California Economy ... PR Newswire (press release), NY - 16 percent of California's adolescents are overweight or obese Medical expenses attributable to obesity cost Californians $7.7 billion each year, ... |
News In Brief New University Online, CA - Carpenter and Davis concluded that young people closer to a fast-food restaurant were more likely to be overweight or obese than those at schools without ... |
![]() TheMedGuru | Obesity in children not properly diagnosed TheMedGuru, India - They discovered that 19 percent of the kids were overweight, 23 percent were obese and 8 percent severely obese. A total of 76 percent of the severely obese ... |
Nibbles: Kids who learn near fast food are heavier, sleep and the ... CalorieLab Calorie Counter News, NV - Specifically women who were overweight or obese but thought they were of normal weight were most likely to gain too much weight during pregnancy. ... |
Study: Obesity surgery reverses diabetes in teens San Fernando Valley Sun, ca - About a third of US youngsters are either overweight or obese. Increasing numbers of obese children are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, ... |
![]() ABC News | Kids with obesity-linked gene like fattening foods The Associated Press - The findings don't mean that everyone with that version of the gene will eat too much and become obese, he said. They just might have a tendency to eat more ... Gene Variant Predisposes Children to Crave Junk Food Gene Variant May Predispose Children to Craving for Junk Food Gene may make kids crave junk food |
Women of all races get bigger Florida Times-Union, FL - In fact, "Historically, a higher percentage of non-Hispanic black women have been obese or overweight, followed by Hispanic women, and then non-Hispanic ... |