School-based obesity prevention promising
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NEW YORK  - A multi-component health promotion program in schools may help excess weight gain among 12 to 13 year-olds, a Dutch study shows.
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Government seeking to counter childhood obesity by making cooking classes compulsory at schools
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Developing countries, especially in  Asia, must promote healthy lifestyles from childhood to halt  rising obesity and heart disease rates, medical experts said on  Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- Childhood obesity has reached such epidemic proportions that it can be reversed only by a coordinated effort touching everything from new zoning laws that promote parks and sidewalks to tougher regulation of ads aimed at kids to more
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Cookery lessons will be made a compulsory part of the school curriculum for every student aged 11-14 as part of government plans to combat obesity.
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Schools may need more money and regulators may need more authority to help America's children from spiraling into obesity, experts and politicians told Congress on Tuesday.
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To fight obesity, the government should boost health education and help shield kids from junk food. And corporate support is needed, too.
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To fight the epidemic of childhood obesity, the nation must launch a massive campaign enlisting virtually every aspect of society to reduce the amount of junk food children eat
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A multi-component health  promotion program in schools may help excess weight gain among  12 to 13 year-olds, a Dutch study shows.
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The more overweight a child, the more likely he or she is to be absent from school, a new report suggests.
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Nutrition experts advise parents to provide a good breakfast for their children because it improves performance at school and avoids obesity.
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Children are main focus of government's obesity strategy to pay overweight people to get slim
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Schools may need more money and  regulators may need more authority to help America's children  from spiraling into obesity, experts and politicians told  Congress on Tuesday.
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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  - Results of a pilot program in   Mississippi hints that distributing apples, oranges and other   fresh fruit free of charge at school may be an effective part   of a comprehensive program aimed at improving students' eating   habits.
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Children who live in densely populated urban areas may be less likely to be overweight if they have parks and lawns in their neighborhoods, a U.S. study suggests.
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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.