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- <img border=0 src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>California making headway in battle against childhood obesity but successes are uneven
- <img border=0 src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Fewer CA kids overweight, but Bay Area struggles
- <img border=0 src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Babies on Path to Obesity? Growth Charts May Offer a Clue
- <img border=0 src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Unhealthy U.S. Workers' Absenteeism Costs $153 Billion
| Posted: 09 Nov 2011 07:22 PM PST A new study offers hope that California may finally be getting a handle on its 30-year battle with childhood obesity, but also showcases a patchwork of progress that leaves the majority of counties in the state still registering increases in obesity rates among California's school-age children. |
| Posted: 09 Nov 2011 05:50 AM PST For the first time in 30 years, the number of overweight schoolchildren in California is falling, suggesting that the state may finally be making some headway in the long battle to prevent childhood obesity, according... |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2011 09:39 AM PST Researchers say there's a new way to tell if infants are likely to become obese later on: Check to see if they've passed two key milestones on doctors' growth charts by age 2. Babies who grew that quickly face double … Continue reading → |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2011 08:43 AM PDT Full-time workers in the U.S. who are overweight or obese and have other chronic health conditions miss an estimated 450 million additional days of work each year compared with healthy workers -- resulting in an estimated cost of more than $153 billion in lost productivity annually. |
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