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It discriminates, perhaps most tellingly, by geography, with 16.5% of rural kids qualifying as obese, compared with 14.4% of urban kids, according to the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health. The poorest states of the South and Appalachia--Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi and Kentucky--have the heaviest children. Adult...
One place to begin that transformation is in schools, since that's where children spend much of their waking lives--and ingest up to 50% of their daily calories. Here, Arkansas--a state that has had one of the nation's highest rates of childhood obesity--is in the vanguard...
"This is not a disease that will be solved with medicines or vaccines," says Thompson. "A social movement has to solve this." So far, the interventions seem to be working--after years of increase, obesity rates among children in Arkansas have leveled off.
Arkansas isn't the only state trying to tackle childhood obesity. In 2003, California led the way by banning sugary sodas from public schools and was soon followed by states across the country, with the result that the major soft-drink companies agreed to withdraw all high-calorie sodas from...
Wesley Clark was the NATO Supreme Commander who led the U.S. war against Serbia in Kosovo in 1999 and failed in his own bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. He was seen as "Bill Clinton's general," hailing, like Clinton, from Arkansas - he backed Hillary Clinton earlier this...