Whenever most people hear about the subject of childhood obesity, they tend to get pessimistic about it because they feel the next generation is too far gone to do anything about it. It reminds me of what has happened in high schools over the past ...
Read more...INDEPENDENCE — On a recent afternoon, elementary-school-aged children ran around an exercise studio in downtown Independence designed to make exercise fun. Two boys hopped on a dance pad connected to a video game. Two other boys played a football ...
Read more...Evening activities at Washington County Public Schools might have been canceled on Dec. 16 due to weather, but that didn’t prevent some of the families participating in Washington County Hospital’s KidShape program from turning out at Elgin ...
Read more...School lunch has turned into a sugar fix for Megan Brady. The skinny ninth-grader skips the cafeteria line to buy her favorite meal, vanilla ice cream and shortbread cookies, from the snack bar nearly every day at Valley Southwoods Freshman High ...
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...Free from the scrutiny of their school's fruit and vegetable police, Rian Hoover and Michael Dodge are trying to make healthy choices over the holiday break. Four days in, Rian, a seventh-grader, said she was resisting temptation. "We got caramel ...
Read more...In the holiday spirit, GoTrybe.com is giving a gift to area students; one that will keep giving through the end of the school year. GoTrybe is providing free memberships to its Web-based health program for every student and teacher in 17 Northeast ...
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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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