News Articles

Representative Wamp Joins American Heart Assn., Educators, Kids In Calling For Physical Education In No Child Left Behind
Chattanoogan.com: September 18, 2007

Fewer Sodas in School, Industry Says
The Associated Press: September 17, 2007

More Kids Developing High Blood Pressure
The Washington Post: September 11, 2007

Exercisers Stuck in Unwalkable Settings
The Associated Press: September 7, 2007

Mothers' Gestational Diabetes Foretells Kids' Obesity
Medpage Today: August 28, 2007.

 

Research and Data
 

Physical Activity Levels Among Children Aged 9--13 Years ---

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5233a1.htm

 

F as in Fat 2007: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America 2007

http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2007/

 

VERB™ — A Social Marketing Campaign to Increase Physical Activity Among Youth:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1253475

 

Overweight Prevalence

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/childhood/prevalence.htm

 

Contributing Factors to Childhood overweight and inactivity

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/childhood/contributing_factors.htm

 

Prevalence of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Physical Activity by Race/Ethnicity --- United States, 2005 

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5613a2.htm