If you don't want your children to be obese adults, make sure they're slim at age 5. That's the message of a study in this month's Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. As part of the Early Bird Diabetes study, researchers in ...
Read more...It's no secret kids today are more overweight and unfit than at anytime in our history. Participating in sport is one of the best, most enjoyable ways for kids to remain physically active and maintain good health. Sadly, many of our kids are quitting ...
Read more...DES MOINES (AP) — State education officials want to ban junk food from the state's schools and give students a nudge when it comes to nutrition. The Iowa Board of Education is considering new rules that target the vending machine and snack bars ...
Read more...DES MOINES, Iowa — State education officials want to ban junk food from the state's schools, and give students a nudge when it comes to nutrition. The Iowa Board of Education is considering new rules that target the vending machine and snack bars ...
Read more...WAUSEON -- The use of harmful and illegal substances is down, as is risky behavior for Fulton County youths, according to a recently released survey commissioned by the county's Family and Children First Council. Compared to numbers obtained from ...
Read more...After her sixth-grade class in 2007 successfully pushed to make the chokecherry North Dakota's official fruit, Nancy Selby's students from Rickard Elementary School in Williston will be back this session with another measure in their sights. And it ...
Read more...When The Gazette started to do reporting for a series about hockey and skating in Cedar Rapids during this 10th season for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders, we asked readers to contact sportswriter Jeff Johnson about the state of ice sports in the city ...
Read more...New Year's is the time to think about the passage of time, what we've experienced and the lessons of life. This New Year's Eve, I thought it would be fun to choose a favorite movie from each of the decades that I've lived. "The Day the Earth Stood ...
Read more...Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. An account already exists for the email address entered. The former Senator who will be Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services shares a lot of his new boss’s views. But in his recent book ...
Read more...AGELL, Charlotte . Shift . 230p. CIP. Holt/Christy Ottaviano Bks. 2008. Tr $16.95. ISBN 978-0-8050-7810-7 . LC 2007046942. Gr 7–9— Adrian Havoc, 15, lives in an urban hotbox in the partially post-nuclear United Christian States, where the end of ...
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