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Recent News & Comments About adolescent obesity
Top 10 kids health issues to watch (PhysOrg)
As 2008 comes to a close, Akron, Ohio, Children's Hospital has compiled "10 Kids' Health Issues to Watch" in 2009. This year's list includes both mental and physical health issues. However, one common thread factors into many of these issues and so became the country's focus of attention: the economy. The financial crunch, here and around the world, will undoubtedly affect the physical and ...
UMass health survey to confidentially quiz students on problems (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WARREN - Probing, personal questions will be posed to high school students at Quaboag Regional Middle-High School, but answering the survey is not mandatory.
VITAL SIGNS: Seven Trends To Watch In Kids' Health In 2009 (Nasdaq)
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- For children and adolescents, 2008 offered a mixed bag of health trends and developments that are poised to carry over into next year. Many of the changes focused on preventing serious diseases and disability later in life.
Seven Trends To Watch In Kids' Health In 2009 (Fox News)
Seven Trends To Watch In Kids' Health In 2009
GoTrybe Donates Program to TN Schools, Helps Youth Get Fit (Centre Daily Times)
In the holiday spirit, GoTrybe.com is giving a gift to area students; one that will keep giving through the end of the school year. GoTrybe is providing free memberships to its Web-based health program for every student and teacher in 17 Northeast Tennessee school districts. Students and teachers will have immediate access to GoTrybe's online fitness videos, as well as nutrition, motivation and ...
Proximity Of Fast-food Restaurants To Schools Increases Adolescent Obesity (Medical News Today)
Fast-food restaurants located near schools have a negative effect on students' health, a new study reports. Researchers examined the relationship between fast-food restaurants located near (within one half mile of) schools and obesity among middle and high school students in California.
GoTrybe Donates Program to TN Schools, Helps Youth Get Fit (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.----In the holiday spirit, GoTrybe.com is giving a gift to area students; one that will keep giving through the end of the school year. GoTrybe is providing free memberships to its Web-based health program for every student and teacher in 17 Northeast Tennessee school districts.
Gastric Bypass Halts Diabetes in Obese Teens (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
MONDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Obese teenagers who have gastric bypass surgery not only lose weight but see their type 2 diabetes disappear, a new study finds.
Gastric Bypass Halts Diabetes in Obese Teens (US News & World Report)
Surgery could help them avoid long-term complications of blood sugar disease, scientists say
A generation immersed in media R. Albert Mohler Jr. (BPNews.net)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--A new report indicates that the average child in America now spends 45 hours a week immersed in the media -- a multiple of the hours spent with parents or in the classroom.
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