Classes teach moms, kids to eat healthy
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One mother vowed to stop buying soda. Another promised to dance with her little girl each day. Still another else pledged to turn off the television set and take her son to the park. The mothers made their resolutions Wednesday at a class to learn to raise fit and trim children.
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Having a nutrition coach  actively coach families on how to make healthy changes in their  diet appears to help parents and their children improve their  nutritional intake, researchers found.
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Diet trends aren't just for adults anymore. A new obsession of America's food, beverage and restaurant companies is thwarting childhood obesity.
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In Bayside, Queens, a ward at St. Maryâs Hospital for Children does the careful work of breaking down childrenâs resistance to eating.
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The folks who brought back three-egg omelets and triple cheeseburgers want to teach your kids a thing or two about health, nutrition and exercise.
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It's a technique on the tip of a lot of parents' tongues Â and maybe their children's too: Puree healthy fruits and vegetables, and sneak them into regular kid food like macaroni and cheese or chocolate pudding. Watch the kids unknowingly gobble down their vitamins, and smile.
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Off-campus eating may undermine school nutrition efforts.
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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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Required exercise at 7 a.m. sharp. No personal televisions or computers. A cafeteria bereft of potato chips and candy bars but full of good-for-you vegetables. Mal Mahedy's new school has tons of rules that other teens would find intolerable.
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The city's public school district will use a grant funded through the No Child Left Behind Act to help students become healthier and fight obesity.
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Chicago - In today&#39;s on-the-run society, the traditional sit-down family meal has pretty much gone by the wayside. But researchers say restoring regular family meals can help teenage girls avoid dangerous eating disorders.
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A group of teachers, authors and psychologists warn junk food, targets and marketing are harming children.
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In an effort to educate the nation's neediest children on nutrition, a new project uses the familiar medium of video games to broadcast its message.
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Nutrition experts and the Food and Drug Administration advocate teaching children to read food labels themselves instead of relying on mom and dad.
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With the start of the school year, parents need to take steps to protect their children from allergy and asthma triggers they may encounter at school.
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Families with autistic children are finding that techniques that have proved successful in the class can be tried at home.
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Loudoun County's school cafeteria food is about to get a closer inspection from parents this year, as the school system publishes ingredients for every item on the menu.