Sentences with phrase «to combat childhood obesity»

Of course, sports do more than combat childhood obesity levels.

As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.

Grant Combats Childhood Obesity in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine (October 31, 2012) BOSTON, MA — ChildObesity180, in collaboration with Tufts University, has been...

As a parent or child care provider, you play an invaluable role in the effort to combat the childhood obesity problem, support children's healthy development and prevent chronic disease later in a child's life.

I continue to feel ambivalence about the strategy of going after the Happy Meal toy as a means of combatting childhood obesity, a strategy that has been adopted via ordinance in San Francisco, as reported here a few weeks ago.

In front of a packed audience in the State Dining Room at the White House on Tuesday, first lady Michelle Obama rolled out her national initiative to combat childhood obesity with a show of force that included medical, business and government leaders, grassroots activists, celebrity public service announcements, cartoon characters as nutrition experts, as well as those most directly affected — the kids themselves.

Obama, who launched the «Let's Move» campaign to combat childhood obesity last year, has previously admitted to having an «obsession with french fries,» which she says are fine to indulge in occasionally.

Some of the best opportunities to combat childhood obesity take place in school: Increased physical activity and healthier school lunches make a big impact, but both are rare in the U.S., which shares with China the world's highest obesity rates.

January 25, 2013 Comer Children's Hospital, White Sox Team Up to Target Childhood Obesity The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital and the Chicago White Sox have joined forces to combat childhood obesity through a partnership aimed at educating youth and families on ways to be active and make healthy eating choices.

So it's not really a surprise that Fitbit has created the Ace, a kids» activity tracker that could help parents combat childhood obesity.

First Lady Michelle Obama believes in physical activity as a way to combat childhood obesity in America.

About Blog The Healthy Kids Running Series was established in 2009 to combat childhood obesity by providing a fun, motivational and educational atmosphere in the world of running.

Video: As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.

In her remarks at the Central Florida evangelical mega-church where Joel Hunter serves as pastor, the first lady made the case that religious organizations can be natural partners in her efforts to combat childhood obesity.

The American Culinary Federation Education Foundation is home to ACF Culinary Team USA, the official representative for the United States in major international culinary competitions, and to Chef & Child, founded in 1989 to promote proper nutrition in children and to combat childhood obesity.

The aim of the Standards is to combat childhood obesity and other health problems, and to help children enjoy balanced meals containing good sources of protein, starch, fruit, vegetables and salad.

Winter 2010: GMA forges unprecedented partnership with First Lady Michelle Obama to combat childhood obesity.

Public Health England have published a report detailing how they hope to achieve a 20 % reduction in sugar by 2020 in order to combat childhood obesity.

ACF is home to ACF Culinary Team USA, the official representative for the United States in major international culinary competitions, and to the Chef & Child Foundation, founded in 1989 to promote proper nutrition in children and to combat childhood obesity.

Oyinlola Oyebode, Associate Professor at Warwick Medical School, discusses the global progress made but calls for further action to combat childhood obesity.

ACF is home to ACF Culinary Team USA, the official representative for the United States in major international culinary competitions, and to the Chef & Child Foundation, founded in 1989 to promote proper nutrition in children and combat childhood obesity.

-LSB-...] why I was glad to read writer / blogger Jane Black's entry in Slate magazine's crowd - sourcing effort to combat childhood obesity.

The New York Times reports this morning on a notable reversal by Save the Children, which had previously been a leading organization in the pursuit of state soda taxes as a way to combat childhood obesity.

He warned that» If some operators would use branding in a way that confuses mothers, particularly the least educated ones, then this could result in a step backwards that would increase health inequalities in Europe and would affect member states and WHO efforts to combat childhood obesity and other child health problems.»

The first lady has lobbied aggressively for the legislation as part of her «Let's Move» campaign to combat childhood obesity.

Such was the case when a dozen fourth and fifth graders posed a few hard - hitting questions to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who are all now part of President Barack Obama's new federal task force to combat childhood obesity.

Combat childhood obesity and promote the development of large motor skills with this week full of physical activities for toddlers.

It's part of an effort to improve nutrition and combat childhood obesity.

«I am thrilled that Congress has taken a major step forward today in passing the Child Nutrition bill — a groundbreaking piece of legislation that will help us provide healthier school meals to children across America and will play an integral role in our efforts to combat childhood obesity,» Mrs. Obama said in a statement released shortly after the bill was passed.

initiative, is intended to combat childhood obesity and fight hunger.

After sharing some alarming statistics about the unfitness of both potential military recruits and a significant portion of those already in the military, Mission Readiness argues that «[w] ith children consuming up to half of their daily calories while at school and out of sight of their parents, schools should be a focal point in the nation's effort to combat childhood obesity.»

First Lady Michelle Obama, who has launched a campaign to combat childhood obesity, ordered a 1,556 - calorie lunch at Shake Shack.

«These findings are important because they suggest that we may have another tool in our toolbox to combat childhood obesity,» says psychological scientist and lead researcher Jennifer A. Silvers, a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University in the laboratory of Professor Kevin Ochsner.

The other thing is what can people listening do for their kids to combat childhood obesity?

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.