Study: Fat Students Sap School Finances
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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.
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Aside from living in the nation's capitol, Washington, D.C., kids have another dubious distinction: They are the fattest children in the country, according to a new report from the Trust for America's Health.
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Grade-school math plus time can add up to big bucks in the bank.
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A new report gives District children a dubious distinction: Nearly one in four of those ages 10 to 17 is overweight, making them the heaviest kids in the country.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Krispy Kreme is offering to reward students with a doughnut for every A on their report card, but the plan seems a little flaky to some officials trying 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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Among teens in one Los Angles public school, 60 percent reported dieting at some point in their lives -- primarily before the age of 14 -- and many said they skipped meals or vomited to control their weight.
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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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Almost 10,000 teenagers are to receive their first payments for staying on at school this month.
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Educators and health officials have stepped up their fight against obesity in US schools by trying to replace greasy fast food with healthy meals, and are seeing small but encouraging results.
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Teenager Jeffery Trimble used to wolf down as many as six cheeseburgers in a day and wasn't worried about being overweight. But then his school sent home an obesity report card.
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FRIDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- As children get ready to head back to the classroom, a new study finds school absenteeism is higher among overweight kids.
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Costs for elite prep schools are staggering, but parents say they're worth it.
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Teen girls who frequently weighed themselves were more likely than others to resort to unhealthy dieting measures, and some ended up gaining close to twice as much weight, a study of Minnesota students found.
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Krispy Kreme is offering to reward students with a doughnut for every A on their report card, but the plan seems a little flaky to some officials trying to fight childhood obesity.
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Although adults who lose weight  may also lose some bone mass, obese adolescents seem to keep  gaining bone density as they shed pounds, a study suggests.
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If there are college kids at your Thanksgiving table, don't encourage them to gobble so much. New research suggests that the typical student leaves the holiday weekend as stuffed as the turkey, gaining more than a pound during the short break.