Healthier Kids-Mayo Clinic

The statistics are alarming. Two-thirds of the adults in the U.S. are overweight and one-half of that group is considered obese. Every year those numbers get bigger. But it's not just adults who are tipping the scales, kids are gaining weight, too. One-third of all school-age children are overweight and when bad habits start early, they're hard to break. A nursing group from Mayo Clinic wants to change that. They're working with public schools, nursing students and parents to help kids get and stay healthier.

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• Children's Health

[arcurlyq]

And don't forget the soft-drink and candy machines that are plentiful throughout any public school. Fresh fruits and veggies are almost non-existent in public schools. Oh, and not to mention the fact that because of NCLB kids are being removed from physical activities to study for tests. And there's the lack of physical activity getting to and from school since we just put kids on buses. So sad.

[VC0L]

Yet all the food they're eating in that little cafeteria are all canned and frozen and I doubt anything is fresh in there. Doesn't sound very healthy to me.

[mistuhsparkles]

Irony.