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Woman Makes Slimming Down Mississippi Town Her Mission [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsAlthough two-thirds of Mississippi residents are overweight, one woman has made it her mission to encourage her town to lose the weight -- and the bad reputation. ...
First Lady to Write Book About White House Garden
By not in system - AOL NewsMichelle Obama is working on a book that's bound to be as dirty as it is wholesome. The first lady has received a book deal from Crown, a unit of Random House, to write about the kitchen garden she started at the White House as part of her efforts to promote healthy eating. The as-yet-untitled book will be published in April 2012. The book will describe how Obama was inspired to plant the first edible garden on the White House's South Lawn since Eleanor Roosevelt's World War II-era victory garden. She will also share some of her family's favorite healthy recipes. The first lady has made ...
Mike Huckabee Defends First Lady in Food Fight With Sarah Palin
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFormer Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee knows a thing or two about obesity. Huckabee, who lost more than 100 pounds after learning in 2003 that he had diabetes, says fellow Republican Sarah Palin maybe doesn't get it when it comes to First Lady Michelle Obama's campaign against childhood obesity. Huckabee, a once and possibly future presidential candidate, told New York radio host Curtis Sliwa that Obama is on to something important. "With all due respect to my colleague and friend Sarah Palin, I think she's misunderstood what Michelle Obama is trying to do," Huckabee said. "Michelle Obama's not ...
Rush Limbaugh Weighs In on Twinkie Diet
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 9) -- No doctor is going to tell Rush Limbaugh to lay off the pastries. The conservative radio host may, in fact, treat himself to a double helping of the sweet stuff in light of new research from Kansas State University professor of human nutrition Mark Haub, who lost 27 pounds over two months while dieting on a daily ration of 1,800 calories of Twinkies, Little Debbie snacks and other delectable junk food. On his radio program on Monday, Limbaugh was beside himself while weighing in on the findings, rejoicing over his anti-exercise stance and citing former Indianapolis Colts wide ...
Fattening Flu? Childhood Obesity Linked to Cold Virus
By Katie Drummond - AOL News
(Sept. 20) -- Researchers think they've found another piece to the complex puzzle of what's causing a rise in childhood obesity worldwide: Kids who've suffered from a common cold virus are also more likely to be significantly heavier than their peers. What the study found In a small study of 124 youths, slightly more than half of them obese, researchers concluded that 15 obese children had antibodies for the virus known as AD36 -- meaning they'd suffered from it at some point -- compared with only four normal-weight children. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Sixteen percent of children in the ...
San Francisco Pursues Happy Meal Crackdown
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- San Francisco is going to war against the Happy Meal. Newly proposed legislation in the progressive city would ban toys from kids meals sold at fast-food chains unless they met nutritional standards. Reports USA Today (hat tip Gawker): Kids meals rank among fast food's big sales catalysts. Although kids meal sales are declining -- because budget-minded parents sometimes opt for dollar menu items instead -- the industry sold about $5.5 billion worth last year, researcher NPD Group reports. Nothing gets kids more excited about eating out than a kids meal with a toy. That's what ...
Michelle Obama Rejects Demonizing Twinkies In Her Anti-Obesity Crusade
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst lady Michelle Obama is using more carrot than stick in prodding food makers, parents, local schools and governments to step up efforts to reduce childhood obesity. She's for the food police -- but Mrs. Obama is the good cop. That doesn't mean she is letting stakeholders off the hook. On Tuesday, Mrs. Obama urged the nation's food makers to produce and market healthier products, ramping up her rhetoric in her anti-childhood obesity campaign in a speech before the Grocery Manufacturers Association. And on Wednesday, Mrs. Obama -- an admitted lover of an occasional hamburger and fries -- ...
Opinion: The Challenge of Childhood Obesity
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 22) -- For many years, educators, nutritionists and researchers have been trying to call attention to the crisis of childhood obesity. And now, with Michelle Obama sounding the clarion call, we finally have a real opportunity to turn the tide on this growing public health threat. But all the acclaim the first lady rightly received for her initiative won't go far enough, once the cheering subsides, without widespread support across the country. Make no mistake: Childhood obesity is a grave and growing problem. Nearly one in three youngsters in the U.S. is overweight, and approximately ...
The Food Stamp Diet: Increasingly Popular, but How Healthy?
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyAs this holiday weekend wrapped up, The New York Times posted an update on the rising number of Americans dependent on food stamps. According to the Times, one in eight Americans are currently on food stamps, and the majority of them are children, with one in four youngsters receiving food assistance through the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). If you calculate the number of children who will have been on at some point before they reach the age of 20, it moves up to (approximately) half. But, with both a marked rise in the number of Americans using food stamps and increased ...
Michelle Obama, Hula-Hoop Star
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama Hula-hooped, double Dutch jumped roped, ran barefoot through an obstacle course on the South Lawn of the White House, and even tried a tightrope -- all part of her latest drive to get kids to eat healthy and exercise. But Mrs. Obama is no purist. She loves French fries. "I have a good relationship with French fries and I would eat them every single day if I could. I really would," she said. The photos from her Wednesday White House event are remarkable -- this athletic First Lady takes Hula-hooping seriously -- with AP counting Mrs. Obama's swiveling hips earning her ...
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