NEWS: Healthy Life Styles: Staying Active and Healthy
 
 October 2008 Weight Maintenance Program Helps Our Children Stay Thinner
 The Journal of the American Medical Association
A little help may go a long way in helping overweight children maintain weight loss. Families, schools, communities, and food marketers should also be part of the solution, according to an editorial published with the study.
 
 June 2008 It's Not Just Genetics
 Time Magazine
The environment makes it easier or harder for healthy choices to be the default choices. The geography of childhood obesity is largely the geography of poverty. There's no pretending that the problem--and resultant disparities in income, education and opportunity--will be easy to address, but there's no denying that it's imperative that we try
 
 Sept 18 2007 EXERCISE AIDS BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS
 USA Today
“The more you do the more you improve. Good news for diabetics: Both aerobic exercise and strength training improve blood sugar levels. And lots of both provides the best results, a new study shows.” Page 9D
 
 July 26 2007 OBESITY CAN RUN IN SOCIAL CIRCLES
 USA Today
“Study: Peers affect ideas on fat and thin. Obesity is contagious. One person’s obesity can significantly increase the chance that his or her friends, siblings, and spouse also will become heavy…”
 February 10 2006 TO LOOSE YOUR GUT, WALK
USA Today Weekend, February 10-12, 2006 FitSmart by Jorge Cruise

A study from Duke University Medical Center found walking or jogging 11 miles a week prevents visceral fat gain.

 
 August 2005 EXPLORING THE BICYCLE - BRAIN CONNECTION: HOW EXERCISE BOOSTS COGNITIVE FUNCTION
Wall Street Journal, Page D1
"A 2005 study in the Journal of Exercise Physiology looked at how 884,715 fifth-, seventh-, and ninth-graders scored on a state mandated fitness test in California. Then it compared those numbers to the reading and math performance of those students on a standardized achievement test."

"Results indicate a consistent positive relationship between overall fitness and academic achievement" said the study. "As overall fitness scores improved, mean achievement scores also improved".
 
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