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How to Help Your Children Eat Healthy at Home, in School
Schools play an important role in determining whether our children are actually going to stick to a healthy eating plan. But as a parent, you are ultimately responsible for the nutrition decisions your child makes - and there are a number of steps you can take to ensure that your child eats healthy at home and in school. more...
What Is Obesity?
As concerns about childhood weight rates continue to mount, many parents are beginning to worry about their children's health. How can a parent know if her child is obese? Where's the line between a child who is labeled overweight and one who is classified as obese? more...
Does Your Child Have Diabetes?
Does your child have diabetes? Most parents, even ones who are doctors or nurses, do not recognize symptoms of diabetes in their children. Many also mistakenly believe that diabetes is a disease of middle age -- but this is no longer true. more...
The Benefits of All-Girls Weight Loss Camps
Because girls face unique struggles with weight and body image, a specially designed summer weight loss camp for girls may be the best way to make lasting emotional and lifestyle changes. more...
How to Help Your Child Lose Weight
Over the past few decades, many pediatricians and nutritionists have advised parents to allow their children to eat what they want, when they want it, and in whatever amounts they want. more...
Community-Based Fit Clubs Help Kids Lose Weight, Improve Fitness
Wellspring Fit Clubs pair Wellspring experts with public or corporate partners to bring an effective fitness and weight loss program to young people in the communities where they live and attend school. more...
To the Heart of the Matter: The Experts Weigh in on the Causes of Childhood Obesity
What's behind the childhood obesity epidemic? The explosion of fast food chains, laziness, genetics, food addiction? There is no simple answer. The only fact the experts can agree on is that obesity is a complex public health issue that is caused by a confluence of physiological, emotional, cultural, and behavioral factors. more...
FDA Warning: Weight Loss Pills Pose 'Great Risk to Public Health'
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers to avoid 28 weight loss products because they may contain "undeclared, active pharmaceutical ingredients that may put consumers' health at risk." more...
Keeping Kids Active During the Winter
With a little creativity and planning, the winter months can be just as active as any other time of the year. more...
Getting Physical
Besides fitting into junior-size clothes, Chloe can do something else she never imagined before she started at Wellspring Academy of the Carolinas last August. She can play sports - and keep up with teammates. Football, basketball, she's got game. more...
Why So Much Water?
The human body is more than 50 percent water - and in some instances, this percentage rises as high as 75 percent. So it stands to reason that water is an essential part of the human diet. But how much water do we really need to consume each day? more...
Rising Obesity Rates Damaging Nation's Health
Certain influences appear to have greater impact than others when it comes to determining the overall quality of a state's health. Two of the most detrimental indicators are smoking and obesity. more...
Yoga: Uniting Mind, Body, and Spirit for Weight Loss
Yoga may not be the exercise that burns the most calories, but studies have repeatedly linked yoga to weight loss. Why? Because it awakens the connection between mind, body, and spirit. more...
About BMI for Children and Teens
Most health care professionals use body mass index (BMI) to screen for overweight and obesity in children and teenagers. Though BMI is not a diagnostic tool and doesn't measure actual body fat, the index has been determined to have a strong correlation to overweight and obesity. more...

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