Youth
- Youth is kids and teenagers and their parents.
- It is how to raise your kids the best way you can, learning and sharing, healthy growing.
- It is the things our kids care about and what you care about for them.
- It is a special place for young people to communicate about things grownups don't understand.
- It is the temporary home while we build FittingInKids.com and FittingInTeens.com, so it is a place where we learn what kids want and need.
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Illinois Senator Shane Cultra Backs Away From 'Fat Tax' Comments An Illinois Senator is backing away from a suggestion he made in committee Tuesday that parents with obese children have their $2,000 standard tax deduction withheld.
Childhood obesity epidemic: Whose fault? The latest entry in the Blame-Parents-For-Obesity-Epidemic-epidemic comes from researchers at Ohio State University and Temple University who wrote in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine that if moms don't bond appropriately with their young children, those children are at risk for becoming obese.
In Texas schools, a picture's worth 1,000 calories Smile, schoolchildren. You're on calorie camera.
SF Bans Happy Meals If you want to play with your food, you'll have to get out of the city.
Study: Parent-Only Education Helps Children Lose Weight Before you even think about shipping your zaftig not-so-little ones off to fat camp, consider a new study published in the journal Obesity: when nutrition and exercise education was given only to parents, their children shed about the same amount of weight as kids who took part in the weight-loss classes with their parents.
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Weight Loss Surgery release form The following is the release form given to the patients of Dr Terry Simpson, bariatric surgeon, Phoenix, AZ and is reprinted with his permission. It is usually attributed to the insurance provider, Kaiser Permanante and used by...
Overweight and Obese Kids eat Less than their slim peers Totally destroying the image of the fat kid overeating which has been so popular on the American scene, a new study out of Canada found that actually overweight and obese kids ate less calories than their slimmer peers (those of us...
Small Choices BIG bodies HOW COUNTLESS DAILY DECISIONS CONTRIBUTE TO AMERICA'S BURGEONING WAISTLINE
The Surgeon General's Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation 2010 Message From the Surgeon Genral. Our nation stands at a crossroads. Today's epidemic of overweight and obesity threatens the historic progress we have made in increasing American's quality and years of healthy life. Two-third of...
National Healthcare Quality Report Health care seeks to diagnose, treat, and improve the physical and mental well-being of all Americans. Across the lifespan, health care helps people stay healthy, recover from illness, live with chronic disease or disability, and cope...
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Why Are We Letting Michelle Obama Off So Easy? The Obamas are seemingly new territory for America's view of the White House. I'm reminded of the Kennedy years. Kennedy was a first in many ways. He was young. He was the first Catholic. He had young children in the White House. His...
Dear Michelle Obama - Good Intentions are Not Enough I sincerely believe that Michelle Obama has the absolute best of intentions with her war on childhood obesity. Unfortunately, good intentions and $5 will get you a non-fat latte and not much else.
Health At Every Size (HAES) Tara Parker-Pope, in the health blog section of the New York Times website, addressed in her post “ A Diva’s Lessons on Weight and Beauty ” the scientifically based concept that controlling body weight is not a matter of will...
"Hello, my name is Andie and I'm a fat Kid." I'm not very good at introductions. People ask me to tell them things I'm good at or things I enjoy and I just can never answer that question. I like people. That's a good answer. I enjoy talking to anyone I can. I'm the person in my...
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I don't believe I'm in court, then why you judging? Posted in A Place for Teens (13 & Up) —Hi purplegirl! It is so awesome that you posted. You ask some really hard questions. For me, questions I have been asking myself in different ways my whole life. I definitely relate!! I can tell you this, since you posted in the teen forum I assume you are a teen. That you are asking these questions now, out loud, is so far ahead of where I was at your age. You have strength and courage. Those are amazing...
Rules for using this forum. Posted in A Place for Teens (13 & Up) —We encourage Teens (13 & above) to participate in the "A Place for Teens" forums, with parental (or guardian) permission and supervision.
Rules for using this forum. Posted in A Place for Kids (12 & under) —We encourage kids (12 & under) to participate in the "A Place for Kids" forum, with parental (or guardian) permission and supervision.
I have a friend who throws up her food. Posted in A Place for Teens (13 & Up) —That may be a dangerous eating disorder.
I am bad at gym. Posted in A Place for Kids (12 & under) —Lots of your friends feel the same way but don't tell anyone.
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