Recent News & Comments About effects of childhood obesity
Effective strategies urgently needed to stop progression of childhood obesity epidemic
Currently more than 10% of preschoolers in the U.S. are obese and effective strategies that target pregnancy, infancy, and toddlers are urgently needed to stop the progression of the childhood obesity epidemic, as proposed in an article in Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.
Childhood obesity contributes to rise of diabetes
With diabetes on the rise among children, doctors and nutritionists are tackling the problem of overweight children. Getting the entire family involved is key, they say.
Boy garners votes to fight childhood obesity, bullying
Submitted photo - Members of David Green's Intro to Martial Arts class watch a video about anti-bullying during class at the Little Elm Public Library.
Could the childhood obesity 'epidemic' be ebbing?
After two decades of steadily increasing rates of childhood obesity, at least one state may finally be turning things around.
UNDERAGED, OVERSIZED • AN ONGOING LOOK AT CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN THE ST. LOUIS ARE
A POST-DISPATCH SERIES
Childhood obesity prevention programs should start very early and involve peers
Kids can be really mean - especially to other kids - and school-yard bullying can have serious immediate and long-term effects. One area of increasing concern in this regard is the possibility that overweight or obese children shoulder the brunt of bullying. With childhood obesity rates reaching unprecedented levels, this may translate into even more negative behavior being experienced by today ...
Childhood Obesity Leads to Unnecessary Surgeries
A pediatric surgeon sees the parents of obese children opting for the quick symptom fix of gallbladder surgery over the slow, difficult route of lifestyle change.
About the series
Throughout this year, the Post-Dispatch will periodically focus on childhood obesity and its effects on our community's health and economy. About one in five children and teenagers in the St. Louis area is obese, a rate that has more than tripled since the 1980s. As the medical care costs of obesity approach $150 billion in the U.S., and the societal costs take a toll on our workforce and ...
Richmond soda tax to fight obesity makes ballot
Richmond voters will decide this fall whether to impose what could be the nation's first municipal tax on soda and other sugary beverages - a penny-per-ounce surcharge intended to fight childhood obesity. The City...
San Francisco Bay area city puts soda tax on November ballot; money would go to fight obesity
RICHMOND, Calif. - Voters in Richmond are set to decide whether to make the San Francisco Bay area city the nation's first municipality to tax soda and other sugary beverages to help fight childhood obesity.
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