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In reply to the discussion: Tax fizzy drinks and ban junk food ads, say UK doctors [View all]KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)13. "Obesity in Young Is Seen as Falling in Several (U.S.) Cities"
The trend has emerged in big cities like New York and Los Angeles, as well as smaller places like Anchorage, Alaska, and Kearney, Neb. The state of Mississippi has also registered a drop, but only among white students.
Its been nothing but bad news for 30 years, so the fact that we have any good news is a big story, said Dr. Thomas Farley, the health commissioner in New York City, which reported a 5.5 percent decline in the number of obese schoolchildren from 2007 to 2011.
The drops are small, just 5 percent here in Philadelphia and 3 percent in Los Angeles. But experts say they are significant because they offer the first indication that the obesity epidemic, one of the nations most intractable health problems, may actually be reversing course.
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Philadelphia has undertaken a broad assault on childhood obesity for years. Sugary drinks like sweetened iced tea, fruit punch and sports drinks started to disappear from school vending machines in 2004. A year later, new snack guidelines set calorie and fat limits, which reduced the size of snack foods like potato chips to single servings. By 2009, deep fryers were gone from cafeterias and whole milk had been replaced by one percent and skim.
Its been nothing but bad news for 30 years, so the fact that we have any good news is a big story, said Dr. Thomas Farley, the health commissioner in New York City, which reported a 5.5 percent decline in the number of obese schoolchildren from 2007 to 2011.
The drops are small, just 5 percent here in Philadelphia and 3 percent in Los Angeles. But experts say they are significant because they offer the first indication that the obesity epidemic, one of the nations most intractable health problems, may actually be reversing course.
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Philadelphia has undertaken a broad assault on childhood obesity for years. Sugary drinks like sweetened iced tea, fruit punch and sports drinks started to disappear from school vending machines in 2004. A year later, new snack guidelines set calorie and fat limits, which reduced the size of snack foods like potato chips to single servings. By 2009, deep fryers were gone from cafeterias and whole milk had been replaced by one percent and skim.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/health/childhood-obesity-drops-in-new-york-and-philadelphia.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Doctors in the UK call for these health issues to be addressed. USA Dr.s say, bring $ and insurance.
Sunlei
Feb 2013
#6
difference is the UK has healthcare for ALL, USA citizens have to pay or crawl to emergency to die
Sunlei
Feb 2013
#12
The UK has the USA as an example of private healthcare fraud/costs,they won't ruin ruin their system
Sunlei
Feb 2013
#25
USA neighborhoods can regulate and fine for, grass height, no cars on sunday,no alcohol, lots more..
Sunlei
Feb 2013
#26