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Managing Your Child's Weight
Dieting is usually off-limits for children, but there are strategies for dealing with an overweight child.
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7 Healthy Snacks for Kids
Snacking is often what creates an obesity problem for kids. Swap poor choices for healthy snack alternatives to help them lose weight.
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Avoiding Childhood Obesity
We all need to eat. Unfortunately some children may be tempted to eat too much. Start good habits early and help avoid obesity as your child grows up.
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Childhood Obesity
What would you do if your doctor or another family member suggested that your child lose weight? Would you put him or her on diet or encourage them to exercise more?
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Dealing with Bullies
If you have overweight, underweight, or ethnic minority children in your school, you probably also have bullies. What can be done about the problem?
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Fighting Childhood Obesity
Promote healthy habits early to prevent toddlers from developing poor life choices that lead to youth and adult obesity.
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Filling a Hole? Or Feeding a Soul?
Big Mac? BK Broiler? Choose your poison, or do some thinking. Fast food has started to take over school cafeterias across the nation. Am I the only one outraged?
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Helping Your Overweight Child
Pediatricians and other health experts have been raising the obesity alarm. If weight has become a problem for your child, the following tips can help.
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Living, Loathing, Loving Ourselves
For years women have seen themselves as either substandard, or have attempted to shrink and tuck their bodies in order to meet society's standards.
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Obesity and Children
This article provides readers with advice for dealing with obesity and children and dieting tips for overweight children.
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Overweight Children
The UK Government is to tackle growing concern over overweight/obese children after research reveals that around 25% of 4-5 year-olds weigh in heavier than they should.
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Overweight Children: A Painful Epidemic?
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Prevent Childhood Obesity
Do your child a favor. Help him or her learn to eat well. This is a gift that lasts a lifetime - a long lifetime.
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Problems for Overweight Children
Health problems incurred by overweight children can be serious. Common causes related to diet and lack of excercise. Tips for parents to help provide a healthier lifestyle.
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Childhood Overweight Often Goes Undiagnosed
Overweight in children should be diagnosed before it expands into obesity, but research shows that pediatricians are not intervening by diagnosing medical health issue.
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Will My Daughter Follow In My Fat Footsteps?
Is obesity inherited through our genes or is it inherited from the eating habits our parents share with us?

Helping Your Child Become Active
Considering how to help your overweight child lose weight; cultivating nutritional awareness, activity and fun are some of the tools you'll need.
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Interventions for Childhood Obesity
The future of our kid's health is in jeopardy. Making a turnaround is going to take help from the community, school and family.
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Obesity In Schools
Half of North American students will weigh too much by 2010 if present trends continue. What are some of the student issues when children are overweight?
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Overweight Kids Miss More School
Obese children miss more school than their peers, setting themselves up for increased drug use, pregnancy & other problems later in life. Try these weight loss tips.
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Portion Control for Healthy Kids
Overweight children are at risk for serious health problems like diabetes and heart disease. A balanced diet with smaller serving sizes can help kids lose weight.
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Childhood Obesity Treatment
Overweight children need a safe, effective, natural and gentle treatment plan to succeed in finding and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
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Rising Obesity in Children: Overweight Problems
Statistics are showing that children are becoming more overweight, even obese, and therefore, are at risk for health problems just like overweight/obese adults.
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Health Risks for Overweight and Obese Children
There are significant short- and long-term health consequences for overweight children, including increased risk of Type II diabetes, heart disease and other afflictions.
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Childhood Obesity and Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes in children ages 9 to 17 has risen dramatically over the past two decades with obesity being the main cause. Parents are the key to stopping this cycle.
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How Obese Friends Affect College
Two studies have recently shown how weight and friends are significant factors in decisions made to mold our futures.
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King's College Childhood Obesity Facts Study
Can research prove that the number of daily meals children eat is related to their weight? When is a child obese? King's College research provides some answers.
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Physical Activity and Kids Health
Children need fun, active adult role models to help them get physically active and stay healthy.
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Protect Your Child from Obesity
Don't wait until your child is already overweight to begin good eating habits. Guarding against childhood obesity begins before your baby is born.
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Obesity -- Problem or Not?
Are overweight children in America as serious a problem as it seems? Find out why so many are.

Obesity - What are the causes?
We've heard the term - we know vaguely what it means. But what exactly is obesity? What causes it? What does it do to the body? Here is a brief overview of obesity. We can call it Overweight 101.
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Nickelodeon Promotes Healthy Foods
Nickelodeon, in partnership with Produce for Kids, is launching a new campaign that will use favorite TV characters to encourage children to eat more fruits and veggies.
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Childhood Obesity
Obesity in children has become a major problem. Young people are sedentary and consume more calories than they use. Behavioral and dietary changes are needed.
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Childhood Obesity Addressed in Seven Steps
Childhood obesity is a health threatening condition that can follow children into adulthood. Medical intervention may be needed to get weight under control.
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Diet Soft Drinks
Diet soft drinks contain the controversial substance aspartame, known by the trade name NutraSweet, which impedes weight loss and may cause additional health problems.
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How Active Should Your Adolescent Be?
If you've wondered how much activity is enough for your adolescent, this is the article for you. The lastest recommendations on activity requirements of adolescents.
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Middle School Recess
Kids are getting fatter and fatter according to the experts. They are eating more and moving less. Can recess in middle schools get them moving once again?
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Review: Big & Tall Chronicles
Gary Marino's account of being a food addict, how he recovered, and what led him to creating the Million Calorie March.
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Body Mass Index in Children
Obesity has become a national epidemic, and your young son or daughter may be too heavy or at risk for future weight problems. Pediatricians now track body mass index.
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Breast Cancer Prevention Through Breastfeeding
A recent report by the World Cancer Research Fund concludes that there is strong evidence that breastfeeding lowers the risk of cancers in both mother and child.
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Childhood Obesity
This article examines being overweight as a child. Children require special care all the time, but being overweight is really a special case.
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Childhood Obesity on the Rise
As childhood obesity rates rise Americans find that the cost is indeed immense, and dollars are not the object of our nation's despair.
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Children's Fitness - Part 1
This article takes a look at some new developments in school physical education programs designed to make PE more relevant, and more fun.
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Children's Television Influencing Health
The article discusses how children who watch a lot of television can suffer from physical, emotional and mental health. It also emphasises the importance of 'movement/exercise' in order to gain overall health. There is information from research findings, as well as my own opinion on the issue.
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Fast Food-The Healthy Kind
Fast food doesn't have to be the kind you drive through to get. Check this article out for a fabulous recipe and new ideas to make your own fast food!
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Nutrition Tips for Families
Changing the way your family eats might seem overwhelming but it doesn't have to be. Start small. Keep it simple. And remember, everything in moderation.
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Obesity an Epidemic
Obesity is a disease, not a character flaw and should be dealt with that way. If you are overweight or know someone who is, please read this article.
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Obesity Linked to Allergy and Inflammation
Allergen-specific IgE, inflammatory C-reactive protein and BMI were measured in children and adolescents. Obese children were likely to show inflammation and allergies.
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Remuda Ranch Arizona Christian Treatment Center
Remuda Ranch, a Christian treatment center in Arizona, uses inpatient physicians to help heal eating disorder recovery patients.
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Yoga for Children Creates a Balanced, Happy Kid
Obesity is a raging epidemic in children. For those that dislike traditional types of exercise, yoga is an excellent choice that offers fitness, fun and mental balance.
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