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Big Risks For Little Hearts - eMaxHealth.com

Kids whose parents or grandparents had heart attacks or diabetes before their 60s, and kids who are overweight, face highest risk. At the age of 10, Kori DeBolt had a cholesterol level that would scare a grown man. She also had a mom who was ...

Obese Kids May Need Long-Term Plan - MedicineNet.com

New research shows that when overweight kids lose weight, they're more likely to stay in shape if they take part in a weight-maintenance program. Such programs provide tips on healthy eating, physical activity, and dealing with peer pressure and ...

Study: Overweight teens face same risky eating behaviors as too-thin ... - KARE

For parents concerned about their overweight teens, new research suggests the best tactic might be to just relax and cook a healthy Sunday dinner. Pushing diets probably won't help. Neither will teasing about weight. Instead parents should focus on ...

Alert! Strict Parents NOT LINKED to Fat Kids - BusinessWeek

A new study in the medical journal Pediatrics got a lot of buzz last week, because it seemed to be saying that strict parents would end up with fat kids. That’s not what the study says at all, however, though you’d never know it from much of the ...

Childhood May Predict Type 2 Diabetes - MedicineNet.com

The new study started in the 1970s and spanned a quarter of a century. At the study's start, 814 boys and girls (average age: 13) got their height, weight, blood pressure, glucose, triglycerides, and cholesterol measured. Back then, about 13% were ...

Reality Bites - BusinessWeek

I’ve spent this summer hanging out on a number of different beaches in the Northeast, and visiting family in Missouri. Everywhere I went, I was smacked in the face with a depressing reality: there are a lot of fat kids in America. I know, I know ...

Video Game 101; Games Now In Local Schools - WTOV 9

Video games that involve physical activity have become part of physical education programs in schools across the state of West Virginia. When you think of video games and kids, the "couch potato" term may come to mind, but there are games growing in ...

Fire on Wetmore Avenue - Everett Herald

MONROE -- Nine-year-old Amanda Lee likes to swim and jump rope and play basketball and softball. "She's definitely an active kid," said her mom, Deidre Lee. But with Amanda's grandmother living with diabetes, both Amanda and her mom are aware of ...