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12
Jul 2010
HealthWorks! first summer camp a hit
Luring kids away from their video games for an entire week to learn healthier lifestyle habits can be a challenge — unless they’re going to a fun-filled camp with their peers. Summer camp is a new twist for HealthWorks!, which provides innovative programs to help overweight young people and their families improve their eating habits
By: Shelley Kirk PhD RD LD | 1
Childhood Obesity
 

18
May 2010
Revolutionizing school lunches
ABC recently wrapped up a six-part primetime series called “Food Revolution” in which celebrity chef Jamie Oliver overhauled school lunches at a school system in Huntington, West Virginia, the most overweight city in the United States. A Washington Post article summarizing the level of success of the project paints a fairly rosy picture of incorporating
By: Kate Setter | 0
Childhood Obesity
 

30
Apr 2010
A new Seattle connection
About the time we launched this blog last fall, several other children’s hospitals around the country were embarking on similar endeavors. It’s been interesting for us to see the approach that each organization has taken and the different resulting blogs. Especially given the fact that, essentially, we all do the same thing – take care
By: Kate Setter | 0
Childhood Obesity
 

30
Mar 2010
When is it too late in the battle against obesity?
Political tension continues to swirl in Washington as the recently passed health care bill has many stakeholders on both sides of the aisle – including many general consumers – pleading for concrete, “real” reform. Not “insurance reform” that addressed in the bill and not simply for immediate health concerns, but the legislation is being critically
By: Thomas McCormally | 2
Childhood Obesity
 

18
Mar 2010
Let’s Move to fight childhood obesity
Let’s Move! It’s a great suggestion, right? We think so, and here’s why: Let’s Move is a nationwide campaign with a single goal: to solve the problem of childhood obesity in a generation, so that children born today can reach adulthood at a healthy weight. Yep, sounds like something we’d get behind! In this week’s
By: Kate Setter | 0
Childhood Obesity
 

02
Mar 2010
Public health at risk with childhood obesity epidemic
“America is guilty of child abuse.”  Health Affairs Editor-In-Chief Susan Dentzer writes this in the March 2010 issue of the journal, a special issue devoted to combating child obesity. If Dentzer’s charge of abuse doesn’t grab attention, pair it with the First Lady’s initiative to drastically reduce child obesity, AND the contents of Health Affairs’
By: Lisa Simpson, MB. BCh, MPH | 0
Childhood Obesity
 

05
Feb 2010
Children Spend Too Much Time With Electronics
A recent Denver Post article, about a Kaiser Family Foundation study, reveals that children ages eight to 18  spend about 7½ hours a day using electronic devices. We find that disburbing, even before you toss in the hour and a half they spend texting or the half-hour they talk on their cell phones. Long gone
By: Danielle Lewis | 1
Childhood Obesity
 

03
Feb 2010
Healthy Choices for Healthy Children (Part II)
A few days ago, we posted a synopsis of the first part of the Healthy Choices for Healthy Children Act that is working its way through both the Senate and House of Representatives in Ohio. The bill proposes 3 key areas of action, the following is Dr. Lisa Simpson’s testimony on behalf of the bill,
By: Kate Setter | 0
Childhood Obesity
 

29
Jan 2010
Healthy Choices for Healthy Children (Part I)
As we mentioned back in November, Dr. Lisa Simpson, director of the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s, recently testified on behalf of the Healthy Choices for Healthy Children Act that is making its way through the Ohio State House as we speak. The CPRC and Cincinnati Children’s are members of the coalition that worked
By: Kate Setter | 0
Childhood Obesity
 

19
Nov 2009
Obesity needs our attention
Surprise, surprise: America has a weight problem. Of course, it’s no surprise. Look around. The only surprise is that despite all the evidence of how harmful obesity is — high blood pressure, heart disease, premature death, diabetes — it’s getting worse. A report out earlier this week says that if America doesn’t get its weight problem
By: Kate Setter | 1

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