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      Fighting Childhood Obesity Takes the Whole Family

      December 2, 2011 /

      Fighting childhood obesity is a family business!

      Isolating a child with a weight problem is neither practical nor possible.

      Family eating habits are ubiquitous and often times an obese child is the progeny of an obese parent.

      Sometime it is necessary for a third party to become involved and retrain the whole family’s ideas about food.

      With more and more children in the U.S. becoming overweight, many parents are wondering how to talk to their children about weight. The Packard Pediatric Weight Control Program for families is remarkably straightforward and successful.

      After a long day of school or work, a group of families gathers in a Stanford Hospital classroom in Menlo Park, Calif. The children are all in the highest percentile for body mass index, or BMI. They’ve signed up with their parents, often at the urging of a pediatrician, for a six-month healthy eating and exercise boot camp.

      Nutrition, Resources, Wellness

      For Practical Purposes; Pizza a Vegetable?

      November 17, 2011 /

      Congress declare pizza a vegetable.

      When it comes to school lunches, that is.

      The rules, proposed last January, would have cut the amount of potatoes served and would have changed the way schools received credit for serving vegetables by continuing to count tomato paste on a slice of pizza only if more than a quarter-cup of it was used. The rules would have also halved the amount of sodium in school meals over the next 10 years.

      But late Monday, lawmakers drafting a House and Senate compromise for the agriculture spending bill blocked the department from using money to carry out any of the proposed rules.

      American children don’t have a fighting chance against diabetes and childhood obesity when over 40% of their daily calorie intake comes from school lunch.

      Quality Control, Resources, Wellness

      Flavored Milks Will Have Less Sugar and Calories

      August 22, 2011 /

      Kids who drink flavored milk will be ingesting fewer calories and less sugar this year.

      As the school is about to start moms can rest a little easier knowing that their children wont be subject to mind bending amounts of sugar.

      Excess sugar has been linked to childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes and a host behavioral problems in kids.

      This is a small step in the right direction especially for kids who rely on school lunches as their primary source of nutrition.

      Cartons of flavored milk will carry just 31 more calories than white milk as the result of a five-year process of industry reformulations aiming to “provide nutritious new products with the same great taste kids love,” said MilkPEP.

      The healthy trend among milk processors will reduce added sugar in fat-free and low-fat chocolate milk by 38 percent.

      “There are a lot of kids that don’t want to drink plain white milk; they really love drinking flavored milk and that’s very important for the essential nutrients in milk,” said MilkPEP CEO Vivien Godfrey. “It’s a happy balance between some added sugars but making sure that the kids actually drink the milk as opposed to taking the white milk on the lunch line and not in fact drinking it.”

      Nutrition, Quality Control, Wellness

      Is Ronald McDonald bad for kids?

      May 23, 2011 /

      The first Ronald was the TV weatherman Willard Scott in his younger years.

      Scott had been doing Bozo the Clown on local television.

      When the show was canceled, an enterprising McDonald’s franchise asked him to come up with a clown figure that would lure the kids into the restaurant.

      Ray Kroc, owner of McDonald’s, saw the clown, liked the idea and extended it to the whole country.

      Adults bear an enormous responsibility for the obesity epidemic among children.

      Yet there’s also no question that even conscientious parents and guardians, who really do try to do well by kids and teach them healthy life choices, are not playing on a level field.

      They’re going up against billions of dollars spent every year in corporate marketing, all aimed at teaching kids to make exactly the opposite sorts of choices

      The fast-food giant hit back at a group of 550 doctors and health-care professionals who took out ads in U.S. newspapers demanding that the company do away with its redheaded clown mascot and its other marketing towards kids.

      “Stop making the next generation sick — retire Ronald and the rest of your junk-food marketing to kids,” said Dr. Steven Rothschild, an associate professor of preventative medicine at Rush Medical College in a release on Wednesday.

      Nutrition, Research, Resources, Wellness

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