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	<title>BodiMojo Blog &#187; obesity</title>
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		<title>The First Lady Weighs in on Childhood Obesity</title>
		<link>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/the-first-lady-weighs-in-on-childhood-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Feldscher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obesity Prevention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s nothing like some sound advice on how to stem the child obesity epidemic.
Even better when that advice comes from none other than the First Lady, as it did recently during a live video chat on the government web site for Let’s Move!—the new site devoted to Michelle Obama’s signature cause of helping kids eat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Huge&#8217; Tackles Big Issue of Obesity</title>
		<link>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/huge-tackles-big-issue-of-obesity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/huge-tackles-big-issue-of-obesity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Keough</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obesity Prevention]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/?p=797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ABC’s new show Huge has just hit the airwaves and is generating some BIG buzz. Huge is about a bunch of teens at “fat camp.” They all have different reasons for going (some chose to, some had parents who forced them) and different attitudes about losing weight. 
The main character, Willamina (played by Hairspray’s Nikki [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stemming the Tide of Obesity</title>
		<link>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/stemming-the-tide-of-obesity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/stemming-the-tide-of-obesity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 15:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Feldscher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Checking out recent health-related headlines, I found plenty about childhood obesity—as usual. Such as:
*  Children are more likely to be bullied if they’re overweight or obese.
* Boys who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to be overweight or obese.
*  Kids who live in the southern states are more likely to be obese than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Obesity at Local Level: Recovery Act at Work</title>
		<link>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/fighting-obesity-at-local-level-recovery-act-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/fighting-obesity-at-local-level-recovery-act-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Atoji</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obesity Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[junk food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smoke free]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just last month, Michelle Obama’s campaign to end childhood obesity promised to get kids moving and revamp school lunches – an effort that involves family and community. Now, the grassroots-level obesity push continues with Communities Putting Prevention to Work: as part of the recovery act, 44 states, including here in Massachusetts, were awarded funds for obesity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michelle Obama Tackles Childhood Obesity: Game-Changing Tactics Needed</title>
		<link>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/michelle-obama-tackles-childhood-obesity-game-changing-tactics-needed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/michelle-obama-tackles-childhood-obesity-game-changing-tactics-needed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Atoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Childhood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Health]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bodimojo.com/blog/?p=629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First Lady Michelle Obama formally announced today a “very ambitious” initiative to end childhood obesity, one of her signature causes. “We want to eliminate this problem of childhood obesity in a generation. We want to get that done,” said Obama, in the launching of the national campaign, “Let’s Move,” which aims to educate parents, make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tune into The Healthy Kids Act</title>
		<link>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/tune-into-the-healthy-kids-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teen Contributor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obesity Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[adolescents]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bodimojo.com/blog/?p=616</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Remy Marin
It’s time for a commercial break – to look at commercials and their effect on our health. With students typically watching three or more hours of television on an average school day, this is a huge amount of time for kids to be influenced by what they are viewing.
These commercials certainly have their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Year in Review: BodiMojo Looks Back</title>
		<link>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/year-in-review-bodimojo-looks-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/year-in-review-bodimojo-looks-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Atoji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cindy Atoji Keene, Editor, with Tara Cousineau, PhD, Founder, BodiMojo.com
Last week, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that included a historic new investment in efforts to prevent teen pregnancy. The funding, which includes a total of $114 million for a new evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program, is the first and only large-scale federal investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of Exercise May Not Be Only Culprit in Teen Obesity: Study</title>
		<link>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/lack-of-exercise-may-not-be-only-culprit-in-teen-obesity-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/lack-of-exercise-may-not-be-only-culprit-in-teen-obesity-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Atoji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obesity Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cereal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Lack of Exercise May Not Be Only Culprit in Teen Obesity: Study
A surprising new study, published earlier this month in the journal Obesity Reviews, showed that the amount of exercise among teens hasn’t decreased significantly over the past two decades, even while obesity rates among youngsters have skyrocketed. Does this mean that exercise isn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax on Soda: An Idea That Pops – or Not?</title>
		<link>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/tax-on-soda-an-idea-that-pops-%e2%80%93-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/tax-on-soda-an-idea-that-pops-%e2%80%93-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Feldscher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obesity Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teens]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bodimojo.com/blog/?p=506</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
There’s a new salvo in the war against obesity. Over the past few months, public health experts and some government officials have called for a tax on soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks.Such a tax, they argue, would reduce soda consumption, lower health costs, and help fund government-run health programs.

Why soda? Kelly Brownell, the lead author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Bodies, Our Daughters’ Bodies</title>
		<link>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/our-bodies-our-daughters%e2%80%99-bodies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bodimojo.com/blog/our-bodies-our-daughters%e2%80%99-bodies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Feldscher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obesity Prevention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[body image]]></category>
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My seven-year-old daughter has taken to grabbing her stomach and saying, “I am so fat!” One day she even said to me, “I wish I could just chop it off!” 

She’s not fat, by the way. But somewhere along the way, she got the idea that she is.
As if we mothers don’t have enough to worry [...]]]></description>
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