Community Health Digest

12/18/09 Proximity to Convenience Stores Fosters Child Obesity, Study Finds

12/18/09 Proximity to Convenience Stores Fosters Child Obesity, Study Finds

Science Daily (press release)

18, 2009) — Childhood obesity is directly related to how close kids live to convenience stores, according to the preliminary findings of a major Canadian ...

12/16/09 Home-based Child Care Meeting Nutritional Standards; Widespread Use of TV a...

12/16/09 Home-Based Child Care Meeting Nutritional Standards; Widespread Use of TV a ...

Science Daily (press release)

A study of about 300 home-based child care providers by Oregon State University's Stewart Trost, an internationally-recognized expert on childhood obesity ...

12/16/09 Government Group Proposes New Kids' Nutrition Regs

12/16/09 Government Group Proposes New Kids' Nutrition Regs

Mediapost.com - Karlene Lukovitz

The proposal was outlined at the end of an all-day Federal Trade Commission public hearing on food marketing and childhood obesity on Dec. 16. ...

12/14/09 The Negative Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages on Children's Health

12/14/09 The Negative Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages on Children's Health

Docuticker (blog)

Over nearly the past 30 years, US children and adolescents have dramatically increased their consumption of sugar- sweetened beverages (SSBs), ...

12/14/09 New Study Levels New Criticisms at Food Industry

12/14/09New Study Levels New Criticisms at Food Industry

UA News (press release) - Jeff Harrison

"We cannot win the battle against childhood obesity as long as we continue to allow industry to bombard children with ads for foods that they really ...

12/11/09 Exercise Cuts Markers of Heart Disease in Kids

12/11/09 Exercise Cuts Markers of Heart Disease in Kids

MedPage Today - Kristina Fiore

Childhood obesity has been associated with future disease risk. Hypertension and early signs of atherosclerosis develop before puberty in heavy kids, ...

12/10/09 USDA To Sponsor Web-based Nutrition Gaming Contest in Support of the...

12/10/09 USDA TO SPONSOR WEB-BASED NUTRITION GAMING CONTEST IN SUPPORT OF THE ...

USDA.gov (press release)

"The Innovations for Healthy Kids Challenge highlights the Obama Administration's commitment to combating childhood obesity and improving the nutritional ...

12/9/09 Type 2 Diabetes Gene Predisposes Children to Obesity, Study Finds

12/9/09 Type 2 Diabetes Gene Predisposes Children to Obesity, Study Finds

Science Daily (press release)

The researchers drew on a cohort of nearly 7200 Caucasian children, aged 2 to 18 years, in an ongoing genome-wide association study of childhood obesity at ...

12/8/09 A Healthier Head Start Focuses More on Preventing Obesity

12/8/09 A healthier Head Start focuses more on preventing obesity

USA Today - Nanci Hellmich

... programs are being offered fruits and vegetables and low-fat or non-fat milk daily as directors are increasingly concerned about childhood obesity. ...

12/7/09 Genetic Studies Reveal New Causes of Severe Obesity in Childhood

12/7/09 Genetic Studies Reveal New Causes of Severe Obesity in Childhood

Science Daily (press release)

— Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that the loss of a key segment of DNA can lead to severe childhood obesity. This is the first study to ...

12/4/09 Nevada Professor Devises New Childhood Obesity Screening Tools

12/4/09 Nevada Professor Devises New Childhood Obesity Screening Tools

Science Daily (press release)

ScienceDaily— A University of Nevada, Reno professor who thinks the present weight management charts and screening tools for children are ...

12/3/09 CDC Sets Goal to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption for Americans

12/3/09 CDC sets goal to increase fruit and vegetable consumption for Americans

Examiner.com

The research summary for this report states, "Fruits and vegetables are important for optimal child growth, weight management, and chronic disease ...

12/3/09 New Studies Reinforce Importance of Diet Choices in Tackling Childhood Obesity

12/3/09 New Studies Reinforce Importance of Diet Choices in Tackling Childhood Obesity

PR Newswire (press release)

ROSEMONT, Ill., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Two new studies show how important forming healthy food and beverage habits can be in children and adolescents. ...

12/2/09 Exercise May Lead to a Smarter, More Successful You

12/2/09 Exercise May Lead to a Smarter, More Successful You

U.S. News & World Report - Amanda Gardner

TUESDAY, Dec.1 (HealthDay News) -- A strong cardiovascular system in young adulthood may boost brainpower, making for better school grades ...

12/2/09 Tall in Third Grade, Overweight in 12th?

12/2/09 Tall in Third Grade, Overweight in 12th?

Health Behavior News Service - Valerie DeBenedette

By Valerie debenedette Being tall and overweight, or just being tall, might be a marker in children for an increased risk of being overweight or obese in ...

11/25/09 Study Links MS with Childhood Obesity

11/25/09 Study links MS with childhood obesity

Mother Nature Network

But according to a new study published in the journal Neurology, health experts might also have to add childhood obesity to that list. ...

11/23/09 Daycare May Double TV Time for Young Children, Study Finds

11/23/09 Daycare may double TV time for young children, study finds

Genetic Engineering News (press release) - Emily Robinson

... MD, MPH, director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute and professor of pediatrics at the ...

11/18/09 USDA Backs Rewarding Schools Serving Healthy Food

11/18/09 USDA backs rewarding schools serving healthy food

Reuters - Christopher Doering, Jim Marshall

The government has targeted improving the nutritional quality and access to school meals amid rising child obesity rates. "It is important for us to reward ...

11/18/09 Obesity Rolling Back Gains in Heart Health

11/18/09 Obesity Rolling Back Gains in Heart Health

U.S. News & World Report - Amanda Gardner

... both adults and children," said Dr. David Crowley, lead author of a study on child obesity and a cardiology fellow at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. ...

11/12/09 Teenagers Tackle Obesity

11/12/09 Teenagers tackle obesity

Los Angeles Daily News - Miriam Finder

A 2005 Public Health study charting childhood obesity by community showed, for example, obesity rates in this age group of 27.5 percent in Hawthorne, ...