Newsletter: New Bedford Bicycle Committe...

Newsletter: New Bedford Bicycle Committee Join Us at AHA! Night – May 10th The newly-formed New Bedford Bicycle Committee, aNB Mass in Motion initiative, will be raising awareness and promoting fitness and education regarding safe bicycling in New Bedford with Trips for Kids. The committee will have a display station complete with demonstrations, helpful resources, and a bike on a fixed trainer so kids and adults can compete and monitor their maximum speed to win prizes. Look for the tents at theNew Bedford Whaling National Historical...

War On Smoking Offers Some Lessons For O...

This story was produced in collaboration with USA Today Since first lady Michelle Obama made childhood obesity her signature project almost two years ago, the issue has had the kind of highly visible national leadership that it previously lacked. But that isn’t enough, say public health leaders frustrated with the slow progress in stemming America’s obesity epidemic. Something more ambitious is needed, they argue — something more like the anti-tobacco movement. The similarities between the two public health challenges are compelling. Tobacco use is the...

Stopping Increase in Obesity Rates Could...

Preventing obesity rates from increasing could save nearly $550 billion in medical expenditures over the next two decades, according to a new study from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Duke University and RTI International. The study, “Obesity and Severe Obesity Forecasts through 2030,” appears online today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and was released at CDC’s Weight of the Nation conference in Washington, D.C. Although the study finds that annual increases in rates of obesity are slowing, it still...

Birds Eye, America’s Leading Vegetable...

Birds Eye announces three-year campaign commitment aimed at increasing vegetable consumption among kids WASHINGTON – The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), which works with the private sector and its honorary chair First Lady Michelle Obama to end the childhood obesity crisis, today announced that Birds Eye, America’s leading vegetable company, is launching a three-year effort to encourage kids to look at vegetables in a whole new way. Birds Eye will invest a minimum of $6 million over three years and is launching a campaign that celebrates and engages GenVeg...

New alliance wants to ease worries about...

By ANIKA CLARK aclark@s-t.com May 07, 2012 12:00 AM The Island Foundation has teamed up with other local groups to help meet a need as basic as it is universal. Meet the Southeastern Massachusetts Food Security Network, an alliance of like-minded groups working to increase people’s access to quality, healthy food. “Food security is a term that we throw around a lot that has a lot of different meanings to a lot of different people,” said Marisol Pierce-Quinonez, the new network’s coordinator. “In this...

Board wants input from pharmacy companie...

By JANE LOPES Editor MIDDLEBORO — Before they vote on a Middleboro Youth Advocate’s proposal to ban the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in pharmacies, the selectmen will ask representatives of the drug stores to comment. The proposed ban is one of a number of changes that MYA, a coalition of organizations and officials that work with young people, is asking the selectmen to adopt as amendments to the town’s tobacco control regulations. The selectmen act as the town’s Board of Health. Other proposed amendments would ban the use of...

Richard Louv: Let them climb trees lectu...

Richard Louv: Let them climb trees The American author Richard Louv coined the phrase ‘nature deficit disorder’ to describe the damage caused to children who never experience the natural world. It’s crucial, he argues, not to shield them from adventures in the great outdoors   ...

Richard Louv...

Richard Louv: Let them climb trees The American author Richard Louv coined the phrase ‘nature deficit disorder’ to describe the damage caused to children who never experience the natural world. It’s crucial, he argues, not to shield them from adventures in the great outdoors  Richard Louv: ‘We’re instilling a kind of ecophobia in kids.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian As a boy growing up on the edge of the Kansas City suburbs, Richard Louv could walk out of the back door of his parents’ house right into a...

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Flash Workout with The First Lady...

1:15 / 1:18 Uploaded by whitehouse on May 3, 2011 First Lady Michelle Obama makes a surprise visit to Alice Deal Middle School to join students in a Lets Move! Flash Workout. Over 600 schools across the country participated in similar workouts at the same time.http://letsmove.gov To see...