Fat puts kids' feet under pressure The Age, Australia - Statistics show that 19 per cent of Australian children are overweight and a further six per cent are obese, with figures for both still increasing. ... |
Being overweight and unhealthy is no way to go through life Danbury News Times, CT - That matches national statistics that show 16 to 20 percent of young people as obese or overweight. "I disbelieve that,'' Katz said. "I have five kids of my ... |
Obese kids face academic setbacks Fiji Times, Fiji - A MAJOR health catastrophe could be developing after new research uncovered that one in every five kids in Fiji were either overweight or obese. ... |
McDonald's Expands Quality Correspondent Program Which Taps ... AHN - "They sell junk food and they market it to kids at a time when public obesity is a major public concern," Nestle wrote. The new McDonald's defenders are ... |
![]() CTV.ca | Text messaging may help kids fight obesity: study CTV.ca, Canada - About 26 per cent of Canadian kids between the ages of two and 17 are considered obese or overweight, according to Statistics Canada. ... |
Pediatric Obesity Guidelines Released Journal of American Medical Association (subscription), IL - The document offers specific criteria for defining overweight and obesity in children and outlines strategies for averting and treating these conditions. ... |
![]() ABC News | Balance Risk Of Childhood Obesity Medications Tampa Tribune, FL - National trends indicate an increase in 8- to 17-year-olds who are overweight or obese and suffering from hypertension. By MARY SHEDDEN | The Tampa Tribune ... PD Editorial: The bad... and the good Fat kids found to have arteries of 45-year-olds |
Bigger, Taller, Heavier Paranoia, childhood obesity and the future ... OUPblog, New York - These are grim statistics, but they’re a drop in the ocean compared to the risks our kids are running by not going out. The number of obese of overweight ... |
The fall of the french fry in Greece MPNnow.com, NY - They’ve been faced with daunting statistics: A statewide survey of nearly 2000 third-graders in 2004 showed that 21 percent of upstate kids were obese, ... |
Kids: Get outside and get healthy The News Journal, DE - Seventeen percent of kids ages 2 to 19 are overweight, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Forty years ago, less than 5 percent were ... |