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…

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Is Self-Help the Secret To Reducing Childhood Obesity?

From Your Health Journal…..”A very educational article from Time magazine written by Bonnie Rochman entitled Is Self-Help the Secret to Reducing Childhood Obesity? Childhood obesity is growing all over the…

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Many U.S. Teens Have Poor Health Habits

From Your Health Journal…..”A very good article from Philly.com via HealthDay that I wanted to promote called Many U.S. Teens Have Poor Health Habits written by Steven Reinberg. A new…

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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…

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Are Fit Kids Smarter?

From Your Health Journal…..”A very informative article by Bruce McDougall of The Daily Telegraph that I wanted to promote entitled Fit children are running, climbing and jumping to smarter conclusions….

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Podcast: The Obesity Epidemic – What Can Be Done?

The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention has some great resources on their site for sharing. Periodically, I will post material here to share with my audience. Today, I wanted…

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Parents, Overweight Kids, Junk Food, And Education

From Your Health Journal…..”A very interesting article written by Norman Byrd in Huliq which discusses how a study has concluded that the parents with a better education tend to have…

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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…

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More On Fast Food

From Your Health Journal…..”I wanted to promote an article I found on the MedCity News web site by Diane Bartz entitled Kids fast food options are awful. According to a…

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Vitamin D May Lower Diabetes Risk In Obese Children And Adolescents

From Your Health Journal…..”Another interesting article from Science Daily that I wanted to promote entitled Vitamin D May Lower Diabetes Risk In Obese Children And Adolescents. We discuss here on…

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