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Michelle Obama announces program to help kids get recommended daily hour of physical activity

March 1, 2013

Feb. 28, 2013, Newser By Darlene Superville, Associated Press Imagine students learning their ABCs while dancing, or memorizing multiplication tables while doing jumping jacks? Some schools are using both methods of instruction and Michelle Obama would like to see more...
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First lady Michelle Obama to embark on national tour celebrating third anniversary of Let’s Move!

February 28, 2013

Yesterday, Feb. 27, first lady Michelle Obama kicked off a two-day nation-wide tour celebrating the third anniversary of Let’s Move!, her initiative to ensure that all our children grow up healthy and reach their full potential. The tour will showcase progress and...
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Gym class isn’t just fun and games anymore

February 25, 2013

By Montoko Rich On a recent afternoon, the third-graders in Sharon Patelsky’s class reviewed words like “acronym,” “clockwise,” and “descending,” as well as math concepts like greater than, less than, and place values. During gym class. Ms. Patelsky, the physical...
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Tell us what you think of NCCOR’s communications and products!

February 5, 2013

We want to hear from you! February 2013 marks the fourth year anniversary of the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research's (NCCOR) website, www.nccor.org. NCCOR is devoted to moving childhood obesity research forward and is dedicated to reducing and preventing childhood...
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New federal rules aim to make school snacks more healthful, limit junk food sales on campus

February 4, 2013

Goodbye candy bars and sugary cookies. Hello baked chips and diet sodas. The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful, a change that would ban the...
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Communities take steps to fight childhood obesity

January 10, 2013

By Kay Manning A 2005 study led by a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago came to a startling conclusion about the effects of childhood obesity: This generation of American children may have a shorter life expectancy than...
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NCCOR highlighted by Georgetown University’s MCH library

January 9, 2013

Librarians at the Maternal and Child Health Library (MCH Library) at Georgetown University have selected the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) to be part of their new edition of the knowledge path, Overweight and Obesity in Children and...
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Learning gardens seek to combat childhood obesity

January 2, 2013

By Erin Prater Give a child the proverbial choice between candy and a carrot, and he’ll likely choose candy — unless he helped grow the carrot. The hypothesis was one of many posited by District 11 dietician Jamie Humphrey last...
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School adds yoga to physical education curriculum

December 26, 2012

Public school yoga instructor Katie Campbell proudly looks out at 23 first-graders as they contain their squirming in a kid-friendly version of the lotus position. In a voice barely above a whisper, she says into her microphone: “Why look at...
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Survey shows parents have difficulty acknowledging child obesity

December 21, 2012

By Al Cross and Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues Many Kentucky parents don't realize that their children are obese or overweight, or at least aren't willing to acknowledge it. That is the obvious conclusion to draw from the latest...
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