Providing a healthy home, modeling health-conscious behaviors, and giving support and encouragement to adolescents for favorable behavior changes could be more successful than talking with teens about weight-related topics, suggests a new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. About 28 percent of youths are overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control [...]
Parents Providing a Healthy Example Better Than Talking About Weight-Related Issues to Youth
November 9, 2012 | Posted by
Alice Randall: Why Four Out Of Five Black Women Are Overweight
May 7, 2012 | Posted by
FOUR out of five black women are seriously overweight. One out of four middle-aged black women has diabetes. With $174 billion a year spent on diabetes-related illness in America and obesity quickly overtaking smoking as a cause of cancer deaths, it is past time to try something new. What we need is a body-culture revolution [...]
