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The Painful Side of Obesity, As Seen on Oprah

January 29th, 2009 by Karen Feldscher · No Comments · Childhood, Healthy Eating, Obesity Prevention, Teen Health

What an emotional subject Oprah tackled this week. 

On Monday, she talked with 16 overweight or obese teens and their parents from around the country. The families had also taken part in a daylong “intervention,” run by a husband and wife team, Rich and Yvonne Dutra-St. John, California-based therapists and intervention specialists, who got the kids [...]

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Why Are Girls Less Active Than Boys? Some thoughts…

January 21st, 2009 by Karen Feldscher · No Comments · Childhood, Current Events, Teen Health, Teens

I remember all too well my primary physical activity as a sixth grader: “cantering” around the schoolyard with my girlfriends as we all pretended to be various types of horses. 

Not your typical kind of exercise, to be sure. But after reading about new research that found that girls are less physically active than boys, I’m [...]

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