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What’s Really In That Happy Meal?
As most parents know, if you’re travelling long distances with kids in tow, the mealtime situation can get downright dire. Last year, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) released the first comprehensive report on kid’s meals at popular fast food restaurants, confirming what we have all long suspected: kid’s meals are not s...
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When Your Kid’s Report Card Says They’re Fat
The "B" on your kid's report card could soon stand for Body Mass Index. A U.S local Public Health Council has OK'd a proposal that will have schools measuring students' weight and height and sending report cards home to parents that warn them when their kids are overweight. It's actually just the latest in a string of states that measure kids...
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It’s NOT Baby Fat
Think those chubby cheeks are sooo cute? Stop pinching and pull out the scale. A new study says one in five American four-year-olds is obese. Not chunky. Not husky. Obese. Sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics, the study shows a drastically higher problem in minority groups, with thirty-one percent of American Indian child...
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Do Your Kids Walk To School?
You know the old joke about how your parents walked to school. Up hill. Both ways. In a snowstorm. (Even in summer.) While being chased by a tiger. A really hungry tiger. (I added the part about the tiger.) Well, with child obesity rates on the rise, maybe it's time to pull that old chestnut out of mothballs. Over at SuperEco, Frank Paynter s...
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What, Wait… Coca Cola is Bad After All?
Many parents were angered last year when popular Australian actress and mother Kerry Armstrong fronted a 'myth-busting' ad campaign for Coca-Cola. The advertorials declared as myths the fact that Coke makes you fat, rots teeth and is packed with caffeine. But, turns out they were doing some myth-telling of their own. Read more...
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Babble Wrap: Jade Goody’s Sons Fly To Australia To Escape Funeral
Jade Goody's Sons Fly To Australia To Escape Funeral Jade Goody's young sons will fly to Australia to escape the sadness of next weekend's funeral for the British reality TV star, who died a week ago after suffering from cancer. Daily Telegraph Obese Mums Urged To Diet Obese pregnant women should be encouraged to limit their weight gain or eve...
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The Baby Fat Epidemic That Isn’t
Yesterday I read the alarming headline 'Health risks increase as newborns get heavier' and was not comforted by the opening paragraph: BABIES in NSW are being born up to 21 per cent bigger than they were two decades ago, putting a generation at an increased risk of developing asthma, diabetes and cancers of the blood, prostate, breast and colon la...
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McDonald’s Raises Burger Prices for Poor Families
Struggling families may be paying more for their McDonald's meals than people in more affluent areas, thanks to the company's new policy of using socio-economic factors as its key criteria for determining price under a new "demand-based pricing" scheme. The reason is simple - they think people in outer suburbs will pay more. The plan was reve...
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Is Shame The Answer To Childhood Obesity?
The creative geniuses behind the anti-childhood obesity ads featuring Barbie certainly seem to think so. Perhaps the Active Life Movement, the (well-intentioned) organization behind the ads, could benefit from this Onion video — a roundtable discussion of the question, "Should We Be Shaming Obese Children More?" — which uncovers the pros and...
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