Sentences with phrase «child obesity offer»

Thanks to «Don't Sweat It» (features, Fall 2006) and «Not Your Father's PE» (research, Fall 2006), we now know that top - down solutions to child obesity offer minimal benefit.

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That's because breast milk — custom - made nourishment specially formulated by Mother Nature — offers so many benefits: It boosts your baby's immune system, promotes brain development, and may reduce your child's risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) as well as diabetes, some types of cancer, obesity, high cholesterol, and asthma later in life.

4) Not only does breastfeeding offer health benefits while a child is actively being nursed, but studies show that it also provides long - term health benefits such as reduced chances of asthma, childhood leukemia, diabetes, gastroenteritis, otitis media (ear infections), LRTIs (pneumonia, bronchitis, etc), necrotizing enterocolitis, obesity, and other potentially life - altering or fatal conditions.

Confronted with rising rates of child obesity and a surge of youth allergies, many local schools seized the moment to take a firm stand against junk food served anywhere and any time in the building — including fare offered by parents for classroom parties, bake sales and club meetings.

She's all for combating hunger, but Chicago's child obesity rate is 28 percent, that's 1.5 times higher than the national average, and offering extra food to kids who already ate at home is bound to make that worse.

Child Care promotes five best practice goals for childhood obesity prevention: increase physical activity, reduce screen time, offer healthy beverages, serve healthy food, and support breastfeeding.

Constantly offering your child foods that are high in sugar and saturated fat (which most bribing foods are) will not only displace healthier more nutrient - dense foods in their diet, but also contribute to poor dental health, overweight / obesity, and a whole host of long term health problems.

For one thing, children learn to eat based upon the foods they experience, so yes, the more we offer unhealthy foods as the option, the worse the obesity epidemic will become.

«Participation in school sports offers so many benefits to children and teens, from lower dropout rates to improved health and reduced obesity.

Through projects at Duke Health, DCRI and the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to weight.

Following this same logic, the school lunches offered to our children are packed with carbohydrate rich foods, which is one of the main causes for obesity among children.

Lorraine Tulloch, programme lead of Obesity Action Scotland, commented: «Change is possible and we have highlighted areas where that change is starting to happen, but more action is needed and greater priority and attention needs to be given to this subject to ensure we offer all our children the best start in life.»

She compares the government's current approach to child obesity with the law's approach towards animal cruelty and suggests that the criminal law offers more protection to animals than it does to children.

The quality of relationships parents make with their children predicts healthy eating, 3 and the only programmes which have an (albeit modest) impact in reversing childhood obesity are programmes which offer development of parenting skills as well as lifestyle advice.4 5 Adverse parenting is also a risk factor for the adoption of smoking, 6 alcohol and drug misuse, 6 teenage pregnancy, 6 and poor mental health in children, 7 adolescents8 9 and adults.10 11 It is possible to show that adverse parenting and poor quality parent — child relationships are risk factors for poor health in general6 12 — 14 and symptoms of poor physical health6 12 13 in childhood and adulthood, as well as cardiovascular disease, 6 13 cancer, 6 13 musculoskeletal problems, 6 13 injury15 and mortality6 in later life.