Word: overweightness
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...benefits can go beyond fun. Ryan Cooper, a seventh-grader in Gardner, Kans., used to get teased by classmates for being shy and overweight. During his four years with grade-school PE teacher KaCee Chambers, whom he credits with encouraging and motivating him, he went from not being able to do a single pull-up to setting the school record. Says Ryan, who also lost 10% of his body fat: "I don't take anything from anyone now!" In Naperville, Lawler recently detected unusually high cholesterol levels in one three-sport middle school athlete, who got medical attention and altered...
...some cases, parents themselves resist. A NASPE survey earlier this year found that parents overwhelmingly support PE. But other studies have found that the parents of overweight kids tend to deny the problem. Chambers recalls her excitement at successfully motivating a young overweight girl to establish an exercise regimen in her home--only to get an angry call from the girl's panicky, obese mother saying, "'Her face is red, and that's not good for her. We're all big, and we're going to stay that...
Some kids need more than a good PE program. Bernadette Williams and her son Wayne Wilson, an overweight, Boston-area fifth-grader, both credit a leading pediatric obesity clinic--which offered focused personal attention on medical, nutritional and emotional issues--with turning their lives around. "Before I went, I would never have asked basic questions about how to eat and exercise, for fear of seeming stupid," says Bernadette. "But the program offered us some simple solutions...
...involves biting the hand that reared it. Last year, ads published by McDonald's France used "Ugly American" caricatures to plant the Golden Arches firmly on the European side of the conflict with the U.S. over beef imports. "What I don't like about McDonald's France," says an overweight U.S. cowboy in one ad, "is that it doesn't buy American beef." The ad specifies that French McDonald's uses only French beef, to "guarantee maximum hygienic conditions" - Europe is citing health concerns in its bid to ban the imports of hormone-treated American beef...
...family consists of five members: my parents, my sister and Sadie, our dog. Sadie is a nine-year-old beagle, very friendly and about seven pounds overweight. The beagle breed is known for its amazing capacity to eat, and Sadie is no exception. She will eat carrots, celery, salsa, glass, teabags, nearly anything that falls on the floor if there is even the possibility that it might be edible. So it goes without saying that Sadie loves Thanksgiving. In fact, one Thanksgiving, while the extended family was eating in our dining room, the dog managed to pull down the entire...