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Brain Development is tied to Physical Fitness
Children’s Brain Development Is Linked to Physical Fitness, Research Finds Another reason why parents should get out there and encourage their kids to be active — it has a lifelong impact in more ways than we even know! Researchers have found an association between physical fitness and the brain in 9- and 10-year-old children: Those…
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Tips to Feed Your Family Healthfully and Happily: A Flat Belly Diet Cook Review
Tips to Feed Your Family Healthfully and Happily: A Flat Belly Diet Cook Review | fitbottomedgirls.com. Some good ideas and recipes found in this article — All of us parents need recipes for dinner and meals to get us out of the rut –And why not make a back to school effort to make healthy…
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Too Fat For 15 Documentary
Too Fat For 15? – iVillage. Have you seen this documentary Too Fat for 15? Some friends at lunch today were telling me they watched the first episode and how disturbing it was to see these kids struggle. It follows kids at a weight loss boarding school — so they get educated in proper health…
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Obesity may be linked to lower sperm count
Obesity is the latest health woe being blamed for low sperm counts among men of child-rearing age, Body Fat: A Threat To Future Babies? Maybe, at least according to a study on 2,157 young men published in this month’s Fertility and Sterility. Men with higher body mass indexes also had lower sperm counts, although still…
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Weight Loss Finding: Cash Incentives Fail to Help Some Lose Pounds
(Aug. 6) — Americans have never been fatter. Here’s one reason it will be hard to turn that around: You can’t even pay people to shed weight. Out this month in the journal Applied Economics Letters is new research by Nicholas Burger and John Lynham. The study’s conclusion is that even when people bet they’ll…
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NEEDED: Intensive, comprehensive and ongoing efforts to address obesity
70 Million Obese Americans: What’s the Solution? Its a national issue that will have lasting repercussions if not seriously looked at and serious action taken. We are a nation of smart people from all over the globe – surely we can put our heads together and come up with a plan to address it. Yes…
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Researcher casts light on ‘obesity paradox’ in heart patients
Researcher casts light on ‘obesity paradox’ in heart patients. Based on the results, Oreopoulos found that 41 per cent of her study group had been wrongly classified by BMI. Some patients who had high body weight but lower body fat were mistakenly considered obese, and conversely, patients of low weight and high body fat were…
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Michelle Obama Talks to AOL Health About ‘Let’s Move’ Website – AOL Health
Do you have a question for Michelle Obama? You can ask her on Tuesday, July 13 at 10 a.m. Eastern time during her first-ever live web chat right here on AOL Health. Mrs. Obama will be discussing the newly enhanced Let’s Move! website and answering your questions live! Mrs. Obama has taken on the ambitious…
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Notable News about Kids
Top 10 Brain Foods for Children. Want your child to do better in school? Take a close look at diet. Certain “brain foods” may help boost a child”s brain growth — plus improve brain function, memory, and concentration. In fact, the brain is a very hungry organ — the first of the body's organs to…