Of Current Interest: MEND
If you are in the United Kingdom, you’re in the midst of the National Childhood Obesity Week (July 4-10), originated by a group called MEND, which stand for “Mind, Exercise, Nutrition… Do it!” Events planned for this year included a new MEND Olympics program. In general, MEND promotes services designed to offer long-term solutions, mainly […]
A Decade of Tech, Part 1
This post takes a look at what technology has been doing in relation to childhood obesity, for better or worse, over the last 10 years or so.
McDonald’s History en Español
So here ya go, kids — eat this, drink that, and be sure to spend plenty of time sitting around engaging with social media — the obesity trifecta!
How People Discovered the Truth about Sugar
Scientists often view anecdotal evidence with suspicion. What happens in laboratories is given more weight than reports from everyday people about things that happen in real life (referred to as “self-reported” evidence, and often taken with a large grain of salt). But perhaps the idea of sugar’s addictiveness was first taken seriously because the anecdotal […]
Singapore’s Vision 2030 Project
Yesterday, Childhood Obesity News looked at some of the programs implemented by the government of Singapore over the past few years to prevent childhood obesity. We also got a glimpse of the future plan slated to begin in the new year, a physical education curriculum that will enable students to be proficient in at least three […]
The Dark Side of Interactive Media
Childhood Obesity News has been considering the proposition that networking via social media can have a bit of a dark side. Electronic shenanigans have given advertisers more opportunities to slide their blandishments into the consciousnesses of children and teens. One of the newer developments is the quick response code, QR for short, which is like a […]
Peers, Networks, Ripples
Childhood Obesity News has mentioned the EarlyBird Study many times, and has used the term “childhood obesity epidemic” many times. They are found together in an interesting article that says: There may not be just one childhood obesity epidemic, but two (or more). The widely-held belief that the entire childhood population is at risk of […]
Around the World With Junk Food Marketing
Today’s source article, “Statement on Junk Food Marketing to Children,” was published in 2004. “That isn’t news,” one might say — and one would be mistaken. Every charge it makes about the childhood obesity epidemic still holds true, so what does that say about the rate of progress in the effort to curb junk food […]