Healthy Lifestyle

• Manners Really Matter: This club teaches children the value of etiquette, art, and social education.
• Set The Table - A Healthy Lifestyles Program: This program educates children about the importance of leading healthy lifestyles. Activities in this program include portion distortion, reading labels and healthy meal preparation.

Leading by Example

The percentage of overweight children in the United States is growing at an alarming rate, with 1 out of 3 kids now considered overweight or obese.Many kids are spending less time exercising and more time in front of the TV, computer, or video-game console. And today's busy families have fewer free moments to prepare nutritious, home-cooked meals. From fast food to electronics, quick and easy is the reality for many people in the new millennium.Preventing kids from becoming overweight means adapting the way your family eats and exercises, and how you spend time together. Helping kids lead healthy lifestyles begins with parents who lead by example

McDonald's stockholders reject obesity report proposal

*Investors reject proposal on children's health report

* Sought assessment of the company's "health footprint"

* Shares rise 52 cents to $81.91

OAK BROOK, Ill., May 19 (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) investors rejected a shareholder proposal that would have required the world's biggest fast-food chain to issue a report outlining its role in childhood obesity and other health matters.

McDonald's shares gained 54 cents, or 0.67 percent, to $82.04 after the vote results were announced on Thursday morning at the company's annual meeting.

McDonald's recommended a "no" vote on the proposal, which would have required the company to assess its "policy responses to public concerns regarding linkages of fast food to childhood obesity, diet-related diseases and other impacts on children's health."

McDonald's, which faces increasing criticism for using toys to market to children, allows parents to swap milk or juice for soda in its Happy Meals. It also offers sliced apples with caramel sauce and chicken nuggets instead of French fries and hamburgers.

Backers of the proposal included the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia and Catholic Health East, a major provider of home healthcare services. (Reporting by Debra Sherman and Lisa Baertlein, writing by Jessica Wohl, editing by Maureen Bavdek)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/19/mcdonalds-idUSN1917434020110519

BMI Chart

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bmi-calculator/NU00597

This website shows you how to calculate your BMI. Check it out and if you are comfortable leave what your BMI is on a comment!

Childhood Obesity Help

http://www.childrensaidsociety.org/obesity-prevention?gclid=CN-Vvcji4qgCFcTd4AodyhZtEw


This website if for anyone who can help children with obesity and make donations. It is also for the children who have this problem, to look somewhere for help as well. 

What's Your Opinion...

What is you intake on Childhood Obesity? Do you think that this effects you at all?

Would Banning Fast-Food Advertising Reduce Childhood Obesity?

What do You Think?

 Researchers say that banning fast food advertising still wouldn't work.

 

 

 Why Bans Don't Work

Ad bans have failed everywhere they've been tried. The list so far includes Sweden, Quebec, and Norway. None of these places have shown significant reductions in child obesity. In Sweden, the restrictions have been in place for a decade, yet the country's childhood obesity rates are in line with the rest of Europe.
There's no correlation between ad exposure and childhood obesity. George Mason University's Todd Zywicki noted at a forum last summer that the average American child actually watches less TV than he did 15 years ago. What's more, children face less exposure to food ads now than they did then, for a variety of reasons. The remote control has made ad-watching optional over the last 20 years, and more recent technology like TiVo may make traditional commercials completely obsolete.
Broadcast television is also losing younger viewers to cable, where ads in general are 40 percent less prevalent and where food ads comprise about half the percentage of overall ad time that they do in broadcast. Cable also offers more options for channel-flipping during commercials, and premium cable stations like HBO, which have no commercials at all, have become popular. All told, the average American child viewed 900 fewer food commercials in 2003 than he did in 1994. That this same average child gained weight amounts to a pretty solid rebuttal to the theory that food marketing is a significant contributor to childhood obesity.





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What is New York Doing about Obesity?

1. Promotion of statewide TV turnoff weeks to all public and private schools in the state and other community-based organizations to encourage students to limit the amount of time they spend watching television.
2. Fifteen Eat Well, Play Hard community projects create environmental, policy and practice changes to increase healthy eating and physical activity in communities.
3. The Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program (HPNAP) implements policies to ensure that healthy foods, such as fresh produce, low-fat milk and whole grains, are available through the emergency food relief network.

• Is New York really trying to make a change? We really don't hear about some of these activities that New York does to help decrease the obese population.