Schools Found Improving on Nutrition and Fitness
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The nationâs schools have made âconsiderable improvementsâ in nutrition, fitness and health over the last six years, according to a new government survey.
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The Ofsted chief says specialist schools are showing "significant improvements", compared to other schools.
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Columbia joined the growing number of universities that are improving financial aid for low- and middle-income students.
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SOUTH Australia&#39;s students have shown improvement in an international science and mathematics study last held a decade ago, and defied a national trend.
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Children are being presented with healthier choices for school dinners or in vending machines.
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Aug. 17, 2004 -- Want to work a little more physical fitness into your child&#39;s day by having them walk to school? ...
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Incorporating short, weekly sessions on healthy living and social pressures into sports training appears to help young girls fight impulses to diet excessively
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US eighth-graders improved their test scores in science and math during the past eight years while fourth-graders&#39; performance dropped, a study of students in 46 countries shows.
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Grants from the American Heart Association are helping give pre-kindergarten children healthy habits.
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It&#39;s not just OK for students to eat on the run when they arrive at a middle school here each morning. It&#39;s encouraged. The program makes it easier for kids squeezed for time to squeeze in breakfast.
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A task force formed by South Carolina's superintendent of education released a report Friday to help school districts craft policies on student nutrition and physical activity that can trim growing numbers of overweight children.
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Five of the countryÂs largest snack food producers said they would start providing more nutritious foods to schools in an effort to fight childhood obesity.
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Health experts are trying to move the nation&#39;s battle of the bulge to an important new front: the schools. Schools need to be more active in teaching heart
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NEW YORK  - A new computer program rates  snack foods according to their nutritional components, enabling  kids to make healthier choices from school vending machines,  according to researchers.
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Expanding waistlines are squeezing the bottom line of the nation's schools, as poor eating and exercise subtly strip money from education, a new study suggests.    "It's too risky not to call attention to this," said Dr...
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There&#39;s a call for schools to aggressively teach children about the dangers of heart disease -- and the risks of bad diet and not exercising enough.
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In addition to improved fitness levels, eight weeks of aerobic exercise improves levels of "good" HDL cholesterol and measures of circulatory function, in overweight children and adolescents, according to a report in the December issue of the Journal of Pediatrics.