Health Buzz: Curbing Childhood Obesity and Other Health News

Effective program to decrease childhood obesity!

There is a teacher in South florida who's developed a phenomenal program to decrease childhood obesity and increase student achievement in core subject areas. His program has been featured on CNN and other news media. His website address is www.getfitwithcoachsmith.com His program is incredible.

Building health habitat as new paradigm

Curbing childhood obesity would benefit from reshaping our view of being healthy from one of figuring out how to change others to how to support a healthy environment. A habitat is a space where conditions are right for a species to flourish in face of a hostile outside world. Families and children can flourish if we create conditions so that the norm is healthy choices, feasting is for celebrating, and many are committed to defending against hostile forces and providing supportive conditions. In a health habitat, we recognize that school, work, home, neighborhood are interacting pieces. In a health habitat, the child and family are the decision center of the team and all the helping professionals have potentially equal value. Who "captains" the team varies with the goals selected by the child and family not with the credentials (MD, PhD, ND, etc.)

Childhood obesity

This is just another of the alarming health trends in the USA. Finally, we are getting these and other issues out in the open and starting to ask, how can this be?

Matt Stone at: http://180degreehealth.com has great insights to this and other alarming health trends that are so important, especially during these tough economic times.

Good job US NEWS for putting the spotlight on issues such as this...

Curbing Childhood Obesity

Enough with the doctors and nutritionists

No more junk food at school

Reinstate phys ed - and make it mandatory

Stop subsidizing corn, soy, etc...

Slap a tax on "junk food" and plow the proceeds directly into health & fitness programs

Only fund health & fitness programs that produce results

Everybody knows that processed foods aren't good for you. Stick to foods that don't come in a box. Fruit, veg, meat, beans, eggs...then add in foods with minimal processing - milk, cream, yogurt, rice, oatmeal.....

http://healthhabits.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/fat-babies-become-fat-kids-become-fat-teenagers-become-fat-adults/

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