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...associated with an increase in cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, skin problems, depression, gastrointestinal disorders, heart failure - the list goes on. We should attack obesity exactly as we have gone after tobacco - with a national advertising campaign, more self-help groups, taxes on certain foods and the right to sue food manufacturers and restaurants. John M.R. Kuhn, M.D., Weston, Wisconsin...
...tobacco. It is associated with an increase in cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression, gastrointestinal disorders, heart failure--the list goes on. We should attack obesity exactly as we have gone after tobacco--with a national advertising campaign, more self-help groups, taxes on certain foods and the right to sue food manufacturers and restaurants. John M.R. Kuhn, WESTON...
Sullivan has not spoken publicly about the teen pregnancies since he told TIME earlier this month that several girls repeatedly requested pregnancy tests at the school clinic and that some had reacted to positive test results with high fives and plans for baby showers. Pathways for Children CEO Sue Todd, whose organization runs the school's on-site daycare center, told TIME on June 13 that its social worker had heard of the girls' plan to get pregnant as early as last fall. She noted that some of the girls involved had been identified as being at risk of becoming...
...young mothers. Sex-ed classes end freshman year at Gloucester, where teen parents are encouraged to take their children to a free on-site day-care center. Strollers mingle seamlessly in school hallways among cheerleaders and junior ROTC. "We're proud to help the mothers stay in school," says Sue Todd, CEO of Pathways for Children, which runs the day-care center. (See the people who mattered...
Then too there are the messages kids are bombarded with from well-meaning strangers ("Oh, he's a chunky one, isn't he?") and critical relatives ("Ah, she's going to grow up to be just like fat Aunt Sue!"). Schoolmates--at least those not yet claimed by the obesity epidemic themselves--may soon join in the chorus. All of this can hit a child's still developing ego hard. On the whole, overweight children are more likely than healthy-weight kids to be anxious, unhappy and depressed. The science is mixed on which kids suffer the most. One study...