Vital Signs: Tackling childhood obesity at the doctor’s office
Parents of overweight and obese children face a heavy burden in navigating a complex health-care system that does little to help them change their kids’ course. But a growing number of employers and health insurers are trying to make it easier to get such help.
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School vending machines may be becoming healthier
HANNIBAL, Mo. (WGEM) — Have you seen the vending machines at your children’s school lately? First Lady Michelle Obama wants to make those vending machines healthier. But doctors say that even the so-called
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Michelle Obama rallies US to push back child obesity
WASHINGTON (AFP) – First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, doctors, the food industry and media to take on the childhood obesity “epidemic” that affects a staggering one in three American youngsters.
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