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Scottish Doctors Reject Chocolate Tax Call. Dec 16, 09
3:24pm UK, Thursday March 12, 2009
Doctors in Scotland have rejected a call for chocolate to be taxed to help Britain get to grips with its obesity epidemic.
Pile Of Chocolate
Chocolate can be a dangerous food, one doctor believes
Dr David Walker earlier called for the tax because he said he believed that chocolate was a "major player" in the problem of the country's expanding… Continue
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Food Politics Chocolate Milk: Soda in Drag
Chocolate Milk: Soda in Drag
Hannah Wallace
December 15, 2009 Hannah Wallace
I’ve been thinking a lot about public school lunches lately—not just because it’s a subject that’s perpetually in the news these days. For the past few months, I’ve been volunteering at Public School 157 in Bed-Stuy, for a grassroots non-profit called Wellness in the Schools. I’m part of the salad bar squad: I slice and chop veggies, prepare bean and pasta salads, and serve the… Continue
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Obesity Concerns spur calls to limit new convenience stores in South L A.
The proposed rules, an outgrowth of last year's city restrictions on new fast-food restaurants, are prompted by links found by researchers between snack foods and obesity in poor communities.
October 12, 2009|Jerry Hirsch
Links found by researchers between snack foods and obesity in poor communities are prompting new calls for more regulation of convenience stores in South Los Angeles.
The… Continue
Added by Paul Murphy on December 15, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments
Orillia Packet Times Letter to the Editor.
Obesity needs to be tackled with a well thought out action plan
The organization obesitythunderbay.ca is
fighting childhood obesity. We are addressing this through education, advocacy and awareness. Our group is in the building stage and we are most eager to seek out like-minded individuals and agencies in an effort to build possible partnerships. We want to build healthy food relationships.
Blaming only… Continue
Added by Paul Murphy on December 14, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments
Obesity ads aim to JOLT PARENTS.
The Boston Globe
Obesity ads aim to jolt parents
Goal: Improve children's health
By John C. Drake, Globe Staff | January 28, 2007
The images are not subtle.
One billboard shows an overweight child's lower legs and feet on a scale next to the words, "Fat Chance," along with a list of the health risks of obesity. A second billboard shows the back of an overweight… Continue
Added by Paul Murphy on December 13, 2009 at 9:02am — No Comments
Canadian Obesity Network New Magizine
Please explore the sponsors of the CON, Canadian Obesity Network.
CON_RCO is grateful to our CONDUIT sponsors:
The Dairy Farmers of Canada
www.dairynutrition.ca
The Networks of Centres of Excellence Program
www.nce.gc.ca
Health Canada and Canada's Food Guide:…
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Added by Paul Murphy on December 13, 2009 at 8:30am — 4 Comments
The skinny on sugary cereals: General Mills takes on childhood obesity
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Breakfast in households with children (and adults who eat like kids) combine two of the biggest money makers in America. Sugary cereal and obesity. And if cereal giant General Mills has its way, the latter will get a whole lot smaller.
Wednesday, Big G, the… Continue
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The Rudd Center Health Digest, September 2009
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The Social Side of Obesity: You Are Who You Eat With
A study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds that the amount of food consumed among youth can be influenced by how much their friends weigh. While these findings… Continue
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The Rudd Center Health Digest, October 2009
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FRONT BURNER NEWS
A Plan to Add Supermarkets to Poor Areas, with Healthy Results
Supermarket
The Bloomberg administration has removed trans fats from New York City… Continue
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The Rudd Center Health Digest, November 2009 From: The Rudd Center for Food Policy
From: The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity (rudd.center@yale.edu)
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The Rudd Center Health Digest, December 2009
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Students Frown on the Obese.
ASHLEY HIEB
Issue date: 12/3/09 Section: News
Two-thirds of Americans over the age of 18 are overweight, according to a report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Eight out of 10 states with the highest obesity rates are in the South, including Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, where more than 30 percent of the population is overweight.
At 27.9 percent, Georgia falls in… Continue
Added by Paul Murphy on December 10, 2009 at 8:05am — No Comments
BMI DISCRIMINATION.
Editorial: Extra wellness class for Lincoln University students with high BMI unfair requirement for graduating
Dec. 4, 2009
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After working for four years -- or more -- toward a college degree, most students are ready to hurl themselves into post-graduate pursuits by the middle of senior year. The anxiety that accompanies the final degree audit is universal, since even one missing credit can… Continue
Added by Paul Murphy on December 9, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments
Obesity and Shared Accountability
This is a discussion to address the blaming model and find support for the Shared Accountability Model. www.youtube.com/smurfp4444 At the youtube site one can explore all 11 videos at my channel.
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Advocacy Group :Drop SHREK From Ant-Obesity Ads [ FAT HATRED ]
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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NEW YORK — A children's advocacy group wants the Department of Health and Human Services to oust Shrek, the animated ogre, from his role as spokesman for an anti-obesity drive.
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood says the soon-to-open "Shrek the Third" has too many promotional ties with unhealthy foods to justify using Shrek as a health advocate.
"There is… Continue
Added by Paul Murphy on December 8, 2009 at 8:03am — No Comments
Fat Policy Is a BIG LOSER.
Lincoln University has the right idea in encouraging graduation candidates to adopt healthier lifestyles. But it gets failing marks for targeting only overweight students for mandatory exercise classes.
Obesity isn't the only health problem found on college campuses. Why not an approach that, rather than stigmatizing one category of students, teaches good nutrition and healthy habits to all?
Officials at historically black… Continue
Added by Paul Murphy on December 7, 2009 at 9:46am — No Comments
Success at Fat - Fighting Lincoln University hinges on BMI test.
Oldest African-American college in US to force obese students on fitness course before they can graduate
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* guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 December 2009 20.47 GMT
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Tiffany Humphrey, whose BMI means she cannot graduate from Lincoln University
Tiffany Humphrey, whose BMI means she cannot graduate from Lincoln University… Continue
Added by Paul Murphy on December 5, 2009 at 9:46am — No Comments
Anti-Obesity Charter. Please share.
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… Continue
Added by Paul Murphy on November 30, 2009 at 8:13am — No Comments
Too Fat to Graduate: Encouraging Fitness or Discrimination?
Too Fat to Graduate: Encouraging Fitness or Discrimination?
Posted by: Samantha A. Murray on: November 20, 2009
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Added by Paul Murphy on November 22, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments
Fat Hatred
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.… Continue
Added by Paul Murphy on November 18, 2009 at 1:52pm — No Comments
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