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- Study In Virginia Finds School Lunches Are Healthier Than Home-packed Lunches
Preschoolers and kindergartners at three Virginia schools tend to eat healthier when they eat school lunches compared to lunches packed at home, Roberto A. Ferdman reports for The Washington Post. Researchers at Virginia Tech surveyed more than...
- Mass. Study Finds Home-packed School Lunches Lack Whole Grains, Fruits And Vegetables, And Have Too Much Sugary Stuff
Packing a healthy lunch that kids will eat is an ongoing challenge for families, and a challenge that is often not met, according to a study by researchers at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. ?When deciding what to pack, parents are juggling time, cost,...
- Study Says Overweight Kids Become Overweight Teens
If a child is overweight in kindergarten, she probably will be in eighth grade, says a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. And if your baby was heavy at birth, it has a greater chance of being fat. It found overweight kindergartners...
- Many Ky. Parents Don't Realize Children Are Overweight, Or Won't Acknowledge It, But Many Report Kids' Poor Health Behavior
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Many Kentucky parents don't realize that their children are obese or overweight, or at least aren't willing to acknowledge it. That is the obvious conclusion to draw from the latest results of the Kentucky Parent...
- Overweight People Tend To Cluster With Those Who Are Likewise
The adage "birds of a feather flock together" seems to apply when it comes to the obesity, with a study concluding that overweight people tend to befriend others who are overweight. Obesity also tends to run in families, with obese parents raising...
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Study: Children are obese because of bad habits, not heredity
Researchers at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center have found poor health habits, not heredity, are making children fat.
Check-ups of 1,003 Michigan sixth-graders showed children who were obese were "more likely to consume school lunch instead of a packed lunch from home and spend two hours a day watching TV or playing a video game," reports Newswise, a research-reporting service.
"For the extremely overweight child, genetic screening may be a consideration," said study senior author Kim A. Eagle, a cardiologist and a director of the UM Cardiovascular Center. "For the rest, increasing physical activity, reducing recreational screen time and improving the nutritional value of school lunches offers great promise to begin a reversal of current childhood obesity trends."
On Dec. 13, President Obama signed the Health, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which will improve the nutritional content of school lunches in an effort to combat childhood obesity. The move will affect nearly 32 million children.
In 1980, only 6.5 percent of U.S. children aged 6 to 11 were obese. In 2008, 19.6 percent were. (Read more)
- Study In Virginia Finds School Lunches Are Healthier Than Home-packed Lunches
Preschoolers and kindergartners at three Virginia schools tend to eat healthier when they eat school lunches compared to lunches packed at home, Roberto A. Ferdman reports for The Washington Post. Researchers at Virginia Tech surveyed more than...
- Mass. Study Finds Home-packed School Lunches Lack Whole Grains, Fruits And Vegetables, And Have Too Much Sugary Stuff
Packing a healthy lunch that kids will eat is an ongoing challenge for families, and a challenge that is often not met, according to a study by researchers at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. ?When deciding what to pack, parents are juggling time, cost,...
- Study Says Overweight Kids Become Overweight Teens
If a child is overweight in kindergarten, she probably will be in eighth grade, says a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. And if your baby was heavy at birth, it has a greater chance of being fat. It found overweight kindergartners...
- Many Ky. Parents Don't Realize Children Are Overweight, Or Won't Acknowledge It, But Many Report Kids' Poor Health Behavior
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Many Kentucky parents don't realize that their children are obese or overweight, or at least aren't willing to acknowledge it. That is the obvious conclusion to draw from the latest results of the Kentucky Parent...
- Overweight People Tend To Cluster With Those Who Are Likewise
The adage "birds of a feather flock together" seems to apply when it comes to the obesity, with a study concluding that overweight people tend to befriend others who are overweight. Obesity also tends to run in families, with obese parents raising...