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"When Great Ideas Rise" or "Let Them Eat Wood?"

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Annual symposium on global agriculture and food security a front for Monsanto-biotech/pesticide industry

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A Discussion of "The Weight of the Nation"

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How to Monitor Your Child’s TV Time

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Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday

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Community Must Be Aware of the Effects of Television Ads To Children

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Diabetes and obesity are big problems for Hispanic women in New York, particularly those in low-income areas such as the South Bronx. Nutritionists say lessons in healthier eating and cooking begin with a cultural understanding of food: http://womensenews.org/story/health/120409/healthy-eating-teachers-target-cultural-taste-buds

Diabetes and obesity are big problems for Hispanic women in New York, particularly... more

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Rewritten Headlines: Oprah to California

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Healthy eating from the ground up

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Baby Got Back (and Confidence)

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Houston is “America’s Fattest City”

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If I change my toilet paper, I can lose 50 lbs. !?!

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McDonald's Ends Use of 'Pink Slime' Meat Paste (VIDEO)

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Why is the USA slipping behind in Life Expectancy? Obesity? Health Care? Car Crashes?

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USDA deregulates two more GM seeds for Monsanto

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Bayer leading producer of a toxic chemical

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SuperNanny State: 200-Pound Ohio Boy Taken from Family, Placed Into Foster Care

Back in July, the Los Angeles Times reported on the issue of placing obese children in foster care after a doctor at Boston’s Children’s Hospital suggested that might be the best place for them. The paper predicted that this possibility is “not going to happen soon.”

How quickly things change after an Ohio third grader, who weighs more than 200 pounds, was taken from his family last month and placed into foster care because county social workers said his mother wasn’t doing enough to control his weight.
The 8-year-old Cleveland Heights boy is considered ”severely obese and at risk for developing such diseases as diabetes and hypertension,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. So, in the land of obesity, case workers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio have drawn a line in the cellulose.

Cuyahoga County doesn’t have a specific policy in place for dealing with severely obese children. But Mary Louise Madigan, a spokeswoman for the Department of Children and Family Services, told the Plain Dealer the organization removed the child in question because case workers considered the mother’s inability to get her son’s weight down a form of medical neglect.
“This child’s problem was so severe that we had to take custody,” Madigan told the newspaper.

She claims her agency worked with the mother for more than a year before asking Juvenile Court for custody of the child. It’s a very slippery slope, however, given that the Ohio Health Department estimates more than 12 percent of third-graders statewide are severely obese (1,380 in Cuyahoga County alone) and this is the first reported child taken into custody.

Children are generally only removed from homes where there is strong evidence of physical abuse, neglect or undernourishment. According to CBS News, lawyers for the mother are now arguing the state has “overreached.” They say the medical problems the boy is at risk for do not yet pose an imminent danger to his health.

The lawyers said they’ve seen children left in homes with abusive parents and drug addicts, but this boy had a normal childhood, participated in school active, and was on his elementary school honor roll.

“They are trying to make it seem like I am unfit, like I don’t love my child,” the boy’s mother, who did not wish to be identified, told the Plain Dealer. “Of course I love him. Of course I want him to lose weight. It’s a lifestyle change, and they are trying to make it seem like I am not embracing that. It is very hard, but I am trying.”

The boy has lost a few pounds and has received treatment for his sleep apnea. The downside is he’s living in a foster home and is now subject to the whims of the foster care system. His mother only gets to see him once a week for two hours.

Next month, the mother and the state of Ohio will debate the case in front of a Juvenile Court magistrate to decide what is in the boy’s best interest. A trial is set on the child’s 9th birthday.

From the sounds of it, the mother is doing what she can to get her son the weight control treatment he needs and, you have to wonder why the state would remove the boy from the home instead of actively helping him to lose weight, especially if he’s in a stable, loving environment — albeit one that is prone to give him the diabeetus.

It should be pointed out that the photo of the kid in this article is not the kid in question, but rather the first result when you image search “fat kid.” The more you know. http://hypervocal.com/news/2011/supernanny-state-200-pound-ohio-boy-taken-from-family-placed-into-foster-care/Back in July, the Los Angeles Times reported on the issue of placing obese children in... more

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The View On The Streets: Should a price be put on life?

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Feeder husband secretly fed wife steroids so she'd get fat and stay at home

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thivest: why the french dont get fat?

Americans just can not find peace. They wonder why the French fact, most consumers of butter, cream and cheese (all produced significantly away from light) are found not to fight the scourge of obesity rather hated scourges, for decades, their society.

The French diet Kate Middleton

Childhood Obesity According to a study should first educate the parents and then children to reduce the junk food. The quick answer to the problem, however, may come directly from the European culture. In fact, the old continent, people seem to eat not because they have to, but because eating is one of the founding values of their culture.

"Your children are obese? We take them there "

What the Americans really do not understand is that the "real" food - because the "fake" is what is sold in fast food - in addition to being healthier, it gives more satisfaction. In fact in France, as here we have, of course, cooking is one of the most deeply rooted traditions and this leads us to look with a critical eye on the shelves of supermarkets preferring a sack of potatoes to peel rather than a bag of chips.

At school with the anti-flesh menu

With difficulty, then, we find a French (or Italian) who does not know the names of at least three different cheeses and their regions of origin, this is because the food is traditional for us Europeans, and the tradition is observed also on the amount of food that we buy.

Americans tend, instead, to consume more than they should, which is why fast food portions have existed for a long maxi. Larger portions simply means more food on the plate and less control of our stomach can not eat until you are full, but as long as there are things in the pot.

To be truly European in terms of food is not enough, then eat a croissant or drink a strong coffee in the morning. In fact, we must think not only what you eat, but also the entire process: from where comes the dish and how you want to taste, however, suggest in the company because the food is made to be consumed
http://www.thivest.com/?page=27Americans just can not find peace. They wonder why the French fact, most consumers of... more

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