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Students need more healthful options
With the new school year just around the corner, parents’ attention is turning to school clothes, supplies and lunches. Yes, school lunches. Traditionally, USDA had used the National School Lunch Program as a dumping ground for surplus meat and...Tags: Diabetes, Weight, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Heart Disease, Barack Obama
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Mount Prospect starts free summer walking, nutrition program
Mount Prospect's public health nurse Jill Heinking said that after discovering far too many of the Latino families she treated were struggling with obesity, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes, she launched bilingual education programs targeting these...
Tags: Diabetes, Weight, Nutrition, Family, High Blood Pressure
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder linked to adult obesity
Having childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could lead to a life of obesity, even if ADHD symptoms disappear in adulthood, a new study shows. The study, which followed up on 207 middle-class men who had been diagnosed with ADHD as...
Tags: ADHD, Weight, Symptoms, Behavioral Conditions, Culture
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Why we marinate
OK, so I'm no Margaret Mead, but it seems to me that if one of humanity's oldest inclinations is to throw raw meat onto a fire, then its second oldest has to be to throw it first into a marinade. With grilling season upon us, our grills are calling...
Tags: Limes, Thyme, Garlic, Wines, Animal
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More gym for kids means less chance of obesity, Cornell study says
More physical education in kindergarten through fifth grade means less chance of obesity, especially for boys, researchers say. The study provides some of the first evidence of a causal effect between gym and childhood obesity. It is to be published...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Organizations, Schools, Weight, Science and Technology
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Local Voices, May. 22
Hospital charges This is in response to the extensive article on the variations of same-procedure charges ("An acute gap in prices at hospitals; U.S. list offers look at billing disparities for same procedure," Page 1, May 9). Not only the variation is...Tags: Breads, Weight, Genetic Engineering, Hospitals and Clinics, Agriculture
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Letters to the editor: Obesity, scandals, and McCartney
I am a retired physical-education teacher who worked with students from kindergarten through eighth grade. A majority of my students could not do one pull-up. I tried to be creative and make exercising fun, for which I had a fair amount of success. I am...Tags: Taxation, Lotteries, Lifestyle and Leisure, U.S. Department of Justice, Weight
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Lack of strength training is most common U.S. health vice
Have you lifted weights today? Odds are, the answer is no. A new report on Americans’ health vices says failure to do strength-training exercises is far more common than the more obvious bad behaviors of smoking, heavy drinking, being a couch potato...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Weight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Social Issues
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Kirstie Alley slams Abercrombie & Fitch over CEO's 'view of people'
Zap2itAbercrombie & Fitch's CEO Mike Jeffries has pissed off a whole lot of people with his comments that his clothing company is not geared towards overweight or uncool people. His statements about Abercrombie & Fitch's choice clientele spread like wildfire on...Tags: Fashion Trends, Abercrombie & Fitch Company
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Letters: Abercrombie and the rest of us
Re "Abercrombie's pitiful pitch," Perspective, May 14 Robin Abcarian is right that Abercrombie & Fitch's refusal to make clothes for women who aren't skinny smacks of elitism. However, should we embrace the figures — 5 feet 4 inches and 162...
Tags: Weight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Freedom of the Press, Politics
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Tomorrow's food will look a lot like yesterday's, analyst says
Harry Balzer has been studying what Americans eat for more than 30 years. And when it comes to what we put on our plate, much has stayed the same, says the chief industry analyst of Rosemont-based NPD Group. "I know what people will be eating in 10...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Weight, Vegetarian Diet, Genetic Engineering, Chicago Restaurants
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