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Ounce of prevention may prevent pounds
A study examining regional changes in child obesity between 2000-2005, published in the journal Obesity, found a local obesity prevention program combining state and local community nutrition and exercise programs with media attention, and an evidence-based school health approach in the El Paso, Texas, region, was most effective statewide in decreasing childhood obesity.
The El Paso fourth graders had a decrease of 13 percent in obesity prevalence.
"Data from the El Paso region show us that obesity prevention efforts, when implemented on a broad scale, can be successful," study leader Deanna Hoelscher of the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, Austin, Texas, said in a statement.
Hoelscher said the results of the study -- called SPAN, or Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition -- illustrated the importance of measuring prevalence at the local level rather than relying on national or state estimates to monitor trends.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 10/23/2009
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10-29-2009 06:42
Howard wrote:
Child Obesity
How about telling parents to get some backbone and just say NO to their children on junk fast food or between meal snacks & desserts. Take their computer games and televisons away and say go out and play. Is that to simple a solution.
10-28-2009 05:17
Charles wrote:
Prevention is USUALLY the best method...
of dealing with most problems...it's cheaper and more reliable than waiting for a problem to become dangerous...look where we are because of reluctance to prevent damage to the environment.
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