Recent News & Comments About adolescent and obesity programs
UMass health survey to confidentially quiz students on problems (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WARREN - Probing, personal questions will be posed to high school students at Quaboag Regional Middle-High School, but answering the survey is not mandatory.
Proximity Of Fast-food Restaurants To Schools Increases Adolescent Obesity (Medical News Today)
Fast-food restaurants located near schools have a negative effect on students' health, a new study reports. Researchers examined the relationship between fast-food restaurants located near (within one half mile of) schools and obesity among middle and high school students in California.
Gastric Bypass Halts Diabetes in Obese Teens (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
MONDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Obese teenagers who have gastric bypass surgery not only lose weight but see their type 2 diabetes disappear, a new study finds.
Gastric Bypass Halts Diabetes in Obese Teens (US News & World Report)
Surgery could help them avoid long-term complications of blood sugar disease, scientists say
Helping Children Achieve Healthier Weights Via Group Treatment (Medical News Today)
Group-based treatment programs may effectively combat childhood obesity in rural communities, according to a new University of Florida study. Children who participated in one of two group programs - family-based or parent-only - were less overweight compared with children in a control group. The findings appear in the December issue of Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
In Rural Communities, Group Treatment Works To Reduce Childhood Obesity (Medical News Today)
A study published in the December issue of Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine found that group-based treatments may be effective programs to combat childhood obesity in rural communities.
Am Jrl of Public Health Highlights: March 2008 (Newswise)
1) Corporate credibility campaigns attempt to legitimize disease promotion; 2) U.S. immigrant children vulnerable to food insecurity and poor health; 3) Proximity of fast-food restaurants to schools increases adolescent obesity.
Group treatment may help children achieve healthier weights (EurekAlert!)
( University of Florida ) Children who participated in family-based or parent-only group weight-management programs were not as overweight after six months as children in a control group.
UIC Receives $16 Million To Study Impact Of Environment On Kids' Health (Medical News Today)
The University of Illinois at Chicago's ImpacTeen project has been awarded a four-year, $16 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study policy and environmental factors that influence youth behaviors related to nutrition, physical activity, obesity and tobacco use. ImpacTeen has received $22.
UIC receives $16 million to study impact of environment on kids' health (EurekAlert!)
( University of Illinois at Chicago ) The University of Illinois at Chicago's ImpacTeen project has been awarded a $16 million grant to study policy and environmental factors that influence youth behaviors related to nutrition, physical activity, obesity and tobacco use.
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