Articles tagged with: childhood obesity
This is part 1 of ZisBoomBah’s exclusive series on motivation.
In the recent movie The Blind Side, after repeated failure on the coach’s part to motivate her stepson as a new football player, Sandra Bullock takes the coach aside and chides him to “know his players.” Provided with insight regarding the unique motivations of his player, the coach is able to create a winning team. This first step in building…
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This is part 3 of ZisBoomBah’s original series “Understanding Your Child’s Body Image.”
Part 1 and part 2 of our body image series talked about how kids don’t consciously draw a link between their own body image and behavior. For them, it’s about being accepted by their friends and loved by their family. So we asked the question, does a positive body image motivate a child…
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Does your child crave sweet or salty? The answer might be more than just a personal taste preference.
Your kid’s salt cravings can indicate low blood pressure or adrenal function, or over-hydration (too much water intake). Kid athletes who sweat but don’t replace the lost sodium might crave salt because of their low blood sodium levels after playing sports.
What if your kid just likes his food saltier? Maybe he…
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Time for a little self-promotion: Since public voting started this week, ZisBoomBah has been switching back and forth between first and second place in Michelle Obama’s nationwide Apps for Healthy Kids competition This is huge news for our startup. If we win, we’ll get major recognition and receive $10,000.
The details: ZisBoomBah is the only contestant from Colorado that was even approved to compete in the…
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This is part I of ZisBoomBah’s original series “Understanding Your Child’s Body Image”
I am worried about my daughter’s body image. She is four years old. But as a child with Type 1 Diabetes, she’s already aware that she is different; that her perfectly cute body is somehow not perfect. So when, exhausted from an episode of hyperglycemia, she recently announced, “Mama, I hate my body!” I knew I still…
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As part of her Let’s Move campaign, Michelle Obama announced that a coalition of 16 food manufacturers has promised to cut 1.5 trillion calories from their products over the next 5 years. The goal is to even cut the first trillion calories by 2012. As members of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, which includes General Mills, ConAgra Foods, Kraft Foods, Kellogg, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Hershey, their…
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New research links children’s overall health to their time spent in nature. Today, “play” no longer means playing with friends outside. Children ages 8-18 spend an average of more than 7.5 hours per day using some sort of electronic screen, according to a 2010 study. Evidence shows that being in nature may directly benefit children’s health.
We probably already knew this intuitively, but OK, now there is scientific evidence.
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Michelle Obama and the Childhood Obesity Task Force released their action plan this week, a “roadmap” for the First Lady’s Let’s Move! campaign to solve the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation.
The action plan’s five main goals are:
- Getting Children a Healthy Start on Life
- Empowering Parents and Caregivers
- Providing Healthy Foods in Schools
- Improving Access to Healthy, Affordable Food
- Getting Children More Physically Active
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Silicon Valley wants to curb childhood obesity by trying to ban restaurants from giving away toys and other freebies with high-calorie kids meals. Can this toy ban be an effective measure to get children to choose healthier meals at restaurants? Is it true that parents don’t stand a chance against the toy incentives?
There was this line in the schmaltzy Eighties teen movie La Boum – The Party that went something like “True love is when the only person you want to be comforted by is the guy who just broke your heart.” The new Childhood Nutrition Act is kind of like that.
The only way schools can serve healthier food is with the government’s support. Right now, school leaders do not have…
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