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Fit doctors more likely to talk to patients about weight loss
If you're overweight and trying to lose pounds you may not get help from your doctor if he is overweight too, according to new research.
According to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, physicians with a...Tags: Medical Research, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Body Mass Index, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Weight
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Time for healthier school lunches
I was delighted to read the newU.S. Department of Agricultureguidelines requiring schools to serve meals with twice as many fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, less sodium and fat, and no meat for breakfast ("Taterless tots," Aug. 24, 2011). The...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Weight, Weight
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October: Good student test scores; bonuses for county workers - maybe
Data released showed that most Harford County Public High Schools scored high in reading and math in the Maryland High School Assessment. That data also placed three high schools – Aberdeen, Joppatowne and the Center for Educational Opportunity...Tags: Prisons, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Army National Guard, Punishment, Aberdeen Proving Ground
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Getting in shape can be life-changing
There aren't too many things in the world that are typically considered life-changing. Marriage. Kids. The death of a loved one. A handful of pivotal books. For me (at least for the purposes of this column), one of them was the gym. I will start by...Tags: Music, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Baltimore Running Festival, Breast Cancer, Health and Safety at School
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Fight obesity by putting calorie counts on menus
When New York City passed legislation requiring restaurants to post calories next to menu items, it took a step toward obesity reduction that Baltimore and the rest of the nation should follow.
We have seen the obesity epidemic grow to epic proportions...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Heart Attack, Healthy Diet, Johns Hopkins University, Obesity
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Is obesity grounds for taking away a child?
In a July 13 opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a pediatrician and a lawyer from Harvard suggest that child-protective services take severely overweight children away from negligent parents. I do think this question should...Tags: Stress, Clubs and Associations, Asthma, Justice System, Obesity
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County council hopes to battle obesity with task force
Harford County is fairly healthy, though more than 60 percent of its adults and children are classified as either overweight or obese, a rate that has tripled since 1996, according to the health department. Harford also ranks worse than the rest of the...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Land Resources, Human Body, Lungs and Airways, Cancer
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Lighten up
A strange observation about our nation is reflected in a recent health department presentation to the Harford County Council, namely that our country is so wealthy that poor people are often overweight.
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but even as the...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Heart Disease, Diabetes, COPD, Weight
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UMB to host summit on childhood obesity
Jay Perman feels a touch ashamed now of the thoughts he had when he first started seeing droplets of fat in the livers of adolescent patients.
Like any person on the street might, the pediatrician believed these hefty kids simply needed to stop gorging...Tags: Healthy Diet, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, University of Kentucky, Teaching and Learning, Vaccines
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Women-only swim beginning of Sharia law in America
And so it begins. Sharia law making its way into our culture, nibble by nibble, bite by bite until one day we wake up and realize that our American way of life has been destroyed and overtaken by another culture. Shehlla Khan, a Muslim Howard County...Tags: Islam, Weight
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Children's novel promotes healthy lifestyle
The children's novel "The Adventures of M.T. Pitt" is helping Howard County promote healthy lifestyles for youths. The book shines a light on an imaginative young boy whose expanding girth makes him a target for the school bully. The Howard County Health...Tags: Family, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Tuskegee Airmen, Libraries, Bullying
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Yes, we do need someone to tell us what to eat
Senora McGuire says "We don't need anyone telling us what to eat" ( Readers Respond, June 7). I say Ms. McGuire must be walking around with her eyes shut. Two thirds of Americans are overweight, and half of those — more than one third of all...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Whole Wheat Bread, Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Physical Conditions
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