Word: overweighted
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...Your HOPS program [Healthy Options in Public Schools] works with overweight kids as well...
...Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows some evidence that the childhood obesity "epidemic" may finally be leveling off. Researchers led by Cynthia Ogden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed survey data gathered between 1999 and 2006, and found that the prevalence of overweight and obesity among American schoolchildren has plateaued at about 32%. After years of rapid increase - the percentage of 6- to 11-year-olds classified as obese rose from 6.5% in 1980 to 16.3% in 2002 - that sounds like good news. "We can be cautiously optimistic that it seems to be leveling...
Ogden wouldn't speculate as to why national childhood overweight trends appear to have stalled. It could be that kids have hit the fat ceiling - they've gotten as heavy as they're ever going to get. Or, perhaps the most obvious answer is the nationwide effort to combat obesity by getting kids - and parents - to eat better and exercise more. From Arkansas, where state officials have begun sending annual childhood health reports to parents, to Massachusetts, where the town of Somerville launched a community-wide intervention to improve the diet and fitness of children, state and local governments have...
...matter what you eat, if you want to keep your memory sharp, you should strive for a diet that keeps your belly fat down. A study of more than 6,500 people published in the March 26 edition of the journal Neurology showed that people who were overweight and had a large belly were 2.3 times as likely to develop dementia as those with normal weight and belly size, while those who were obese and had a large belly were 3.6 times as likely. As scientists have long known, as belly fat--which disrupts body chemistry more than less reactive...
...shows that he’s not averse to the idea of strong female leads).I’m not one, however, who thinks it’s such a terrible thing for guys to make movies about guys being guys. While turning tales of the perennially unemployed, overweight, and substance-dependent into comedies does little to improve the image of us heterogametes, I understand the appeal. Undoubtedly, though, the films would benefit from a bit of refocusing and, perhaps more importantly, a feminine touch.While this is unlikely to happen, it seems as though the women of American Comedy like...