| Americans Getting Heavier: Report
About every fourth American child between the ages of ten to seventeen is overweight. This is the finding of a new report which has stated, "The rate of childhood obesity more than tripled from 1980 to 2004. Approximately 25 million children are now either obese or overweight." Released this week by the Trust for America's Health, the report, 'F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2007', says that incidences of overweight are extremely common now in the south and the southwest. This, the group's fourth annual report was the first to rank states on obesity among children as well as adults. Data from the latest National Survey of Children's Health, which had been conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was analyzed for the report. The report says that there are probably 25 million overweight or obese children in the U.S.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A CBS reality series in which youngsters run their own town has prompted complaints from one of the children's parents, and may have skirted New Mexico's child-protection laws. "Kid Nation," slated to premiere Sept. 19, was filmed over 40 days during April and May in a movie-set town in the high desert just south of Santa Fe. While parents and children made available by CBS praised the production as safe, well-supervised and a learning experience, one mother has told authorities the conditions warrant an abuse investigation. Janis Miles of Fayetteville, Ga., said in a letter that her 12-year-old daughter, Divad Miles, was spattered on her face with grease while cooking potatoes on a wood stove, and that four other children required medical attention after they accidentally drank bleach.
William Whipple Jr.
Brigadier General William Whipple Jr., 98, of Princeton, died August 23 in Princeton. A retired Army officer, Rhodes scholar, and public servant, he had been a longtime resident of the Princeton area. Born in 1909, he grew up on a sugar plantation in Cinclare, Louisiana. His father, William Whipple, an MIT engineer brought up in the New York area, had come south to become the factory superintendent of the sugar refinery on the plantation. The second of five children, William Jr. graduated from West Point in 1930, went on to study economics and philosophy at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and several years later did a year of graduate studies in engineering at Princeton University. A fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, he was the chief engineer for the construction of the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York.
Mixing up martial arts
"You take a mortal man, and put him in control," screeches our blood-curdling, death metal workout soundtrack. I am running laps sucking stale gym air, doing firefighter lifts at high speeds, handstands and what seems like a lifetime's worth of crunches. We're going over "simple" holds that will allow you to instantly and devastatingly overpower any assailant. All in the first five minutes – and I'm hooked. For the texting masses, kids too young to remember Mike Tyson for anything beyond cannibalism or how fearsome George Foreman was before he became an aproned pitchman for a cooking utensil, mixed martial arts is the combat sport of choice. Like its cousin boxing, it's a seedy blood sport in which toothless goons with let the fluids fly. Or so you'd think.
Back To School Basics For Food Allergic Children
More than 2.2 million school-age children have life-threatening food allergies and that number is expected to rise according to the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network. For these children, heading back-to-school can spell increased risks unless prepared.
"Parents of food allergic children have to take an extra step when their children are in a school environment, but this is a topic that everyone should be aware of. Even if their child doesn't have severe food allergies, chances are one of their child's friends do," says leading New York-based allergist and immunologist, Clifford Bassett, M.D., F.A.C.A.A.I., F.A.A.A.A.I., Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Otolaryngology, at SUNY -- Long Island College Hospital and Faculty of NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Bassett offers this advice for parents and caregivers of food allergic children:
Study-Up: Parents should check their state laws and school policies to see if children are allowed to bring epinephrine auto-injectors, the standard treatment for anaphylaxis or a severe reaction, to school as there are some states and school districts that ban these life-saving devices.
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