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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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