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A collection of important material we have previously posted on our web site.

Sweet Nothings :: Not all Sweeteners are Equal - The obesity epidemic is causing people to search for calorie short cuts... [More]

Eating Out :: What Are the Real Costs? Editorial : Should nutritional information be added to Restaurant menus? [More]

Feeding our Children :: How can we help kids be healthy? Editorial : Commercialism is good for profits...Bad for our children's health. [More]

Kid's Menus :: Do kids eat anything else? Adult menus are constantly changing to accommodate our ever changing dietary fads...Why do restaurants assume kids always want the same thing? How can we break this trend? [More]

TSUNAMI RELIEF :: Please consider a donation to UNICEF. Children are the most vulnerable to disease, famine and worst of all predators. Aside from loosing their family, there are already horrendous stories cropping up about lost and orphaned children being sold into slavery for labor and pedophilia. Your support is paramount to their survival.

New PBS TV Show on Children’s Health :: "Keeping Kids Healthy," a series developed and co-produced by Montefiore Medical Center and WNET/Ch. 13, recently became nationally syndicated and is now shown on about 100 public television stations. [More]

Childhood Obesity Linked to Overweight Parents :: FRIDAY, July 9 -- Children with obese parents have the greatest risk of being overweight, says a Stanford University School of Medicine study in the July issue of Pediatrics. The study of 150 children from birth to age 5 found 64 percent of the children with obese parents became overweight, compared with 16 percent of children with normal-weight parents. "The findings of this study suggest that at-risk children may be identifiable in the first few years of life," Dr. W. Stewart Agras, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, said in a prepared statement. Identifying risk factors that result in early childhood obesity may help researchers to develop ways to prevent it. More on Childhood Obesity

:: TAKE BACK YOUR TIME is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment. [More]