After Childhood Cancer
By Beth Kurt, MD Less than 20 percent of children survived cancer in the 1960’s. Fortunately, the five-year survival rate for childhood cancer is now approaching 80 percent. (1) As…
Read more »Beating Childhood Obesity
From Your Health Journal…..”I had to promote an article by Angela Mollard in the Telegraph from Australia entitled Love the key to beating deadly child obesity epidemic. Childhood obesity is…
Read more »Childhood Woes
From Your Health Journal…..”I had to promote a great article in the New York Post written By Dr. Allen Frances entitled A disease called ‘childhood’. Do 1 in 5 NYC…
Read more »Public Schools Screen Students For Childhood Obesity Using BMI
From Your Health Journal…..”A very interesting article from a local ABC/FOX channel entitled Public Schools Screen Students for Childhood Obesity using BMI out of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Department of Public…
Read more »Duck, Duck, Goose: Tackle Childhood Obesity Early With Group Games
By Jacqueline Horsfall The preschool group was busily cleaning up blocks, paints, and plastic dinosaurs when I entered the classroom. A hand tugged at my sweater. “Who are you?” asked…
Read more »Childhood Obesity And Portions
By Dr. R. Todd Hurst and Dr. Lisa Hurst One of the biggest health problems of today is child obesity. This isn’t just because of unhealthy diets though, it also…
Read more »Chicago’s Fight Against Childhood Obesity
From Your Health Journal…..”A great article in the Med Ill Reports by Srushti Shahand Kaitlyn Zufall entitled Chicago schools rev up fight against obesity. As we know, childhood obesity is…
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Child Obesity Is Not the Problem
From Your Health Journal…..”I had to promote a wonderful article written by Marci Warhaft-Nadler of The Huffington Post entitled Child Obesity Is Not the Problem. In a day and age…
Read more »Parents Are The Key In The Battle Against Childhood Obesity
From Your Health Journal…..”I had to promote an article I recently found on the Toronto Star web site written by Patrick Luciani entitled Parents Are The Key In The Battle…
Read more »Preventing Childhood Tooth Decay
From Your Health Journal…..A short, yet important article I found recently on one of my favorite sites to promote called Health News Digest entitled Preventing Childhood Tooth Decay is as…
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