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Europeans approve anti-obesity charter
Last Updated: Thursday, November 16, 2006 | 12:37 PM ET
The Associated Press

European health ministers from 53 countries approved Thursday the world's first charter to fight obesity, vowing greater action against the epidemic of expanding waistlines across the continent.

The charter, approved in Istanbul, Turkey, was drafted by the World Health Organization in consultation with its European member states. It is the first real attempt to compel national au… Continue

Too Fat to Graduate: Encouraging Fitness or Discrimination?

Posted by: Samantha A. Murray on: November 20, 2009

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Lincoln University, a historically black institution in Pennsylvania, will require students who are deemed “too heavy” to pass a physical fitness course to graduate, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In an admirable effort to keep students healthy, Lincoln U. wants to help students become more physi… Continue

This was a posted response addressing childhood obesity.


u wanna stop childhood obesity...??
here's what u gotta do....take the damn video games away from them, unplug the tv. put locks on the cupboards and fridge. take away the sugar cereals. have them make a lunch to take to school. get them out of the house and get them outside playing with their friends instead of sitting infront of the idiot box. get them into sports at a young age.
have regular eating times. stop giving your kids $10 a d… Continue

Oct 29 2009
Family doctors resign from AAFP over Coke partnership

Yesterday, 20 family physicians in Contra Costa County, California, ripped up their membership cards in the American Academy of Family Physicians in protest over the AAFP’s partnership with Coca-Cola.

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The director of the Contra Costa Department of Health Services, Dr. William Walker, announced that he was resigning his 25-year membership in AAFP. In his statement, Dr. Walker said:

…I am appalled and ashamed of this part… Continue

Food makers suspend promotion of Smart Choices labeling
The program that includes nine major firms has been criticized for promoting foods such as Froot Loops and Cracker Jack as nutritional. The FDA says such labeling systems ay be misleading consumers.

Associated Press

October 24, 2009

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Portland, Ore. - A food industry group is voluntarily halting promotion of its nutrition labeling program after federal r… Continue