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At this time, the scope of the wiki is limited to the Healthy Weight Initiative (HWI) and its participants. However, we look forward to expanding the scope of the wiki to our pilot programs and any individual CHCs that may need their own wiki-space.
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In the News
Monday October 6, 2008
- Can Reading Help Kids Lose Weight?
- When doctors urge overweight kids to pick up more activities, reading probably isn't what they have in mind. Yet a new study by obesity researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading — depending on the choice of material — can spur weight loss in tween-age girls...
Tuesday September 15, 2008
- 6 Food Mistakes Parents Make
- Harriet Worobey, a childhood nutrition instructor, knows firsthand that children can be picky eaters, but even she was surprised by a preschooler last year who ate a mostly chocolate diet...
Friday August 29, 2008
- Website Spotlight: Gaming 4 Health
- Gaming4Health is an interactive social network for the Health Care industry. We provide the community, information, resources and services to support the adoption of healthy gaming as a means to improve health education, condition management, fitness and quality of life. The communities established by the users of this site will allow people with similar health goals, conditions, research ideas, or challenges to communicate with other like-minded people from all over the world. It will also facilitate interaction and commerce between researchers and developers of healthy games, devices, and resources and health and wellness organizations...
- Our network of experts in the medical, fitness, rehabilitation, weight-loss, simulation and other fields will provide the most up-to-date information, resources, research and solutions in the Healthy Gaming industry. Additionally, our GameBase is the most robust and current database of Healthy Games available – including basic information on every game (company, contact, price, etc.), demos and other downloads, as well as plenty of community feedback, ratings and reviews...
Monday August 18, 2008
- Priced Out of Weight Loss Camp
- Tiffany King has made progress. When the 5-foot-tall 12-year-old arrived at Camp Pocono Trails in June, she weighed 354 pounds. By Sunday’s weigh-in at the weight loss camp, she had lost 37 pounds. She hopes to get down to 304 by the time camp ends next week. Whether she does or not, Tiffany is already one of the lucky few...
- Five Financial Costs of American Obesity
- Last month, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health came out with another report, in what has been a parade of dire warnings about obesity in the United States. In a study published in the July issue of Obesity, they concluded that unless our eating habits or exercise habits change, 86 percent of the American population will be overweight or obese by 2030...
Wednesday July 23, 2008
- MedPedia Is Wikifying the Medical Search Space
- MedPedia is a new project, currently in development, that will offer an online collaborative medical encyclopedia for use by the general public. In order to keep the content accurate and up-to-date, content editors and creators have to have an MD or a PhD. Several highly-esteemed medical colleges will be contributing content...
Tuesday July 22, 2008
- Exiling the Happy Meal: LA Lawmakers Want to Escalate The War on Fast Food (And Obesity)
- Despite its health-crazy reputation, parts of Los Angeles are plagued by obesity rates that rival any city in America. Now, the city may join a growing roster of local governments aiming to put their residents on diets by cracking down on the fast-food industry...
Wednesday July 9, 2008
- The Top Ten Most Ridiculous Diets
- People will do almost anything to lose weight. While the most logical, sustainable means of doing so hasn’t really changed—eat less and exercise—every day it seems there are a host of new and outlandish methods to lose those love handles. Most of these ill-fated regimes will help you lose pounds, at least in the short term, but sometimes it’s at the expense of an organ or your sanity...
Tuesday July 8, 2008
- Cholesterol drugs recommended for some 8-year-olds
- For the first time, an influential doctors group is recommending that some children as young as 8 be given cholesterol-fighting drugs to ward off future heart problems...
- Cholesterol Screening is Urged for Young
- The nation’s pediatricians are recommending wider cholesterol screening for children and more aggressive use of cholesterol-lowering drugs starting as early as the age of 8 in hopes of preventing adult heart problems...
Friday June 27, 2008
- School is Out, and Nutrition Takes a Hike
- Camp food is just one of the summertime nutrition challenges for parents these days. While childhood health advocates often blame schools for poor nutrition and a lack of physical activity, the problem often gets worse in the summer. Last year, The American Journal of Public Health published a provocative study showing that schools may be taking too much of the blame for the childhood obesity epidemic...
Monday June 23, 2008
- Weighing Nondrug Options for A.D.H.D.
- About 2.5 million children in the United States take stimulant drugs for attention and hyperactivity problems. But concerns about side effects have prompted many parents to look elsewhere: as many as two-thirds of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D., have used some form of alternative treatment...
Friday June 20, 2008
- Most Doctors Aren't Using Electronic Health Records
- A government-sponsored survey of the use of computerized patient records by doctors points to two seemingly contradictory conclusions, and a health care system at odds with itself...
- Spike in School's Pregnancies Leads to Report That Some Resulted From Girls' Pact
- At least 17 girls at the public high school in the seaside town of Gloucester, Mass., are expecting babies, and a Time magazine report says nearly half became pregnant after making a pact to do so and raise the children together...
- Top health official pledges action on childhood obesity
- Childhood obesity is too pervasive and pressing a problem to attack with piecemeal approaches, the state's top health official said today, vowing to fuse the best ideas of academic and public policy experts with experiments being played out in cities and towns across Massachusetts...
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