Only 18 percent of children are eating the recommended three or more servings of fruits and vegetables each day, according to a Produce for Kids study released by the Perishables Group. Forty-three percent of parents say their children eat one or fewer servings daily.
Read more...(By Joe DePriest, jdepriest@charlotteobserver.com) Kids crave junk food more than fruits and vegetables. And about the only exercise many get is turning on the TV or computer. The result: They pack on the pounds. North Carolina has the fifth-largest number of overweight adolescents in the country. According to the N.C. Nutrition & Physical Activity Surveillance System, 32 percent of Gaston ...
Read more...Chocolate bars and sweets are a thing of the past at Aspen Heights Elementary School. They’ve been replaced by granola bars and apple slices.
Read more...Parents who let their overweight children eat junk food and play video games are 'killing them with kindness', ministers are warning.
Read more...SO you made it through the first Monday of the new year, and your diet's still intact. Great. Now get ready for the rest of your life. If only you had someone to guide you, to tell you what to eat, when to exercise and how to stay on the straight...
Read more...Do you find the advertising of junk food to kids acceptable?
Read more...WASHINGTON -- Ever watch a teen skulk in the corner of a toddler-packed pediatrician's waiting room, obviously wishing to be anywhere else?
Read more...BAN french fries? That’s an idea under consideration in Iowa as schools nationwide continue to grapple with how to help curb the obesity epidemic among children.Iowa’s Board of Education will decide in February whether to follow recommendations to ban soda from vending machines in favor of water, 100 percent fruit juices, vegetable juices and milk. Vending machine snacks also would have calorie ...
Read more...School lunch has turned into a sugar fix for Megan Brady.
Read more...Remove the junk food from the schools! FINALLY ! This has only shown students it is OK to eat as much junk food as you want because no one is going to tell them they have had enough or too much because the money goes into he “slush fund.”
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