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CHICAGO (AP) — Cholesterol levels in children and teens improved in the latest analysis of U.S. health surveys, yet only half of them had readings considered ideal. Overall, 7% of kids had high cholesterol in surveys from 2009 to 2016. That was down from 10% a decade earlier. In children, high levels mean 200 or […]

September is Childhood Obesity Month, which helps to bring awareness to the increasing number of children who are overweight and obese. Dr. Lisa Ashe works with children who have health problems due to obesity and hopes that more information about the necessity of children’s healthy eating habits will help to stem this dangerous trend. Here’s […]

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Last June, we reported on the top worst states to raise Black children based on the Casey Foundation findings (2013-2014). This year, as of July…

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NEW YORK (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama visited a school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Thursday to announce a $500 million donation funding the fight against childhood obesity. As she watched teenagers prepare smoothies at the Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School and stepped into a room of students taking a spin […]

Georgia pediatrician Dr. Stephanie Kong and her practice Zoe Pediatric believe the battle against childhood obesity can be fought…and won. They believe in awareness and prevention and want parents to be partners in helping their children stay healthy and fit. Although obesity rates have dropped 43% among preschool children in the last decade, according to […]

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First Lady Michelle Obama has become one of the most recognized faces in the battle against childhood obesity in recent years. Whether motivating the youth…

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Those efforts to fight obesity in schools? Think younger. A new study finds that much of a child’s “weight fate” is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth grade were already overweight when they started kindergarten. The prevalence of weight problems has long been known — […]

It’s not all about how many calories kids consume that is causing obesity. Dr. Collier says what kids eat and how often they eat that also…

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The CDC and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) recently reported that the national childhood obesity rate has leveled off and even declined in some cities, counties and states. For black youth, other children of color and in poor communities, however, progress to reduce obesity rates has been more limited. In 2007, the Foundation announced […]

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Michelle Obama has been the focus of a media blitz lately celebrating the first anniversary of her “Let’s Move,”  campaign geared to encourage fitness and healthy eating among young people. Though the right-wing has sniped at Mrs. Obama in the past, touting her as some kind of radical pushing vegetables on the nation’s children (how […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — In the battle against childhood obesity, New York City appears to be doing better than Los Angeles, at least for low-income preschoolers. A study released Thursday compared obesity rates for young poor children in the nation’s two largest cities over nine years. Rates dipped in New York from about 19 percent […]

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A new study finds that taste sensitivity can be linked to obesity issues. German researchers found that obese children have less sensitive taste buds than children of normal weight, which can lead to overeating. The study examined the taste sensitivity of 200 children between the ages of 6 and 18. Over half of the children […]