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Before attending Harvard, Banks-Johnson, who was born in Boston, lived in the shadows of Cambridge for much of her life, calling Roxbury and then Needham home during her childhood. For the first two years of her life, she lived in married student housing at Harvard Law School, from which her father, Richard L. Banks ’51 graduated...
...growing family moved to Ipswich, Mass. where he’d had his honeymoon. Divorcing in 1976 and remarrying a year later, he first moved inland to Georgetown, and then, in the mid-1980s, to the coastal community of Beverly Farms, where he presently lives in the childhood home of a Harvard classmate...
...means less achievement in class, but Sallis' SPARK research suggests otherwise. Academic performance can actually improve with more activity. There may be other benefits as well. Ludwig observes that during years in which phys ed has declined, the nation has seen big increases in attention-deficit disorder and childhood depression. "It shouldn't be so surprising that low physical-activity levels would have adverse effects on a child's emotional health," he says. "Exercise benefits overall well-being, not just body weight...
...Public-health advocates say food advertising aimed at children has spun out of control--infiltrating schools, sports arenas, the Web and, of course, TV, where it has become ubiquitous, thanks to the explosion of 24/7 children's programming on cable and satellite. Killing the messenger won't cure the childhood-obesity epidemic, experts agree. But calls are rising for the Feds to crack down, as a growing body of research suggests that all this advertising is doing a terrific job of whetting kids' appetite for fatty, salty and sugary fare and rendering it tougher than ever for both parents...
...government's most salient media campaign to reduce childhood obesity is an initiative called Verb, which encourages kids to be more physically active. Absent from its promotional materials, however, is any mention of the need for children to cut back on junk food. --By Daren Fonda