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Report says school food making kids unfit to serve
WASHINGTON -Too fat to fight? Many American children are so overweight from being fed french fries, pizza and other unhealthy foods at school lunchrooms that they cannot handle the physical rigors of being in the military, a group of retired officers say in a new report. In a report released Tuesday, the group says that…
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Weighing the Evidence on Exercise
Weighing the Evidence on Exercise – NYTimes.com. How exercise affects body weight is one of the more intriguing and vexing issues in physiology. Exercise burns calories, no one doubts that, and so it should, in theory, produce weight loss, a fact that has prompted countless people to undertake exercise programs to shed pounds. Without significantly…
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Saturdays in Suburbia
Some of you may remember that I was scheduled for the Bluemont Vineyard 5k today. Well – Scott had to go to NYC yesterday for business and will not be home until this afternoon – so I had to bow out of it. I was bummed until yesterday when I realized that Thursday’s Plumbline workout…
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Jamie Oliver Launches Online Campaign For Healthy Eating in Schools
Chef Jamie Oliver (of Naked Chef fame) has launched a cross-platform campaign called Jamie’s Food Revolution in an attempt to overhaul the way kids eat in America. Today is Food Revolution Friday, and Oliver is taking to the web in order to get folks to sign his petition to improve food in school cafeterias via…
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No excuse really…
I have begun on occasion to do some grocery shopping at Walmart. I hate to even admit it but it is cheaper and they do have some organic selection of produce so when I have time, I go there. The lines are too long and there is no one to help you if you have…
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What’s a healthy breakfast for a picky kid?
…Skipping breakfast has been linked to childhood obesity, diminished health and nutrition status and compromised school performance. Breakfast quality is just as important as consuming breakfast regularly. Research shows that eating a lower glycemic index breakfast (one that raises blood sugar levels more gradually), can improve school performance and may also help with blood sugar…
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Students’ physical fitness associated with academic achievement; organized physical activity linked to lower body fat in girls
Students’ physical fitness associated with academic achievement; organized physical activity linked to lower body fat in girls… “The take-home message from this study is that we want our kids to be fit as long as possible and it will show in their academic performance,” Cottrell said. “But if we can intervene on those children who…
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Get Moving…
I saw this interesting piece of news targeted at women: Exercise Can Help Prevent Weight Gain, But It Won’t Be Easy There’s a lot of attention paid to what works when it comes to losing weight. But that’s not really the hard part; anyone can diet or exercise in the short term, but maintaining a…