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New Child Obesity Research Findings - Friday, March 05, 2010

Child obesity issues dominated many Texas and national media stories this week, from the opening of a new center to address child obesity issues to a series of important new policy briefs on the issue in the journal Health Affairs. A great deal of new research got publicized this week (hat-tip to the RWJF Child Obesity News Digest for making us aware of several of these):

3.5.10 Child Obesity Prevention Should be Started at an Early Age, Says Research (Top News)
3.4.10 School Lunch Programs Can Reverse Child Obesity (Houston Chronicle)
3.3.10 Kids Get 27 Percent of their Calories from Junk Food (Boston.com)
3.2.10 Banning School Junk Food Slows Obesity (UPI)
3.1.10 Striking Number of Obesity Risks Hit Minority Kids (Associated Press)
3.1.10 Childhood Obesity Linked to Heart Risk (The Wall Street Journal)

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