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UK Releases New Childhood Obesity Figures
March 25, 2008
Nearly one-fourth of children are overweight or obese before they are old enough to enter grade school, reports the UK's Department of Health.
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Thailand Confronts Childhood Obesity
March 25, 2008
Thailand has been listed as one of the countries with the world's fastest growing number of overweight children, according to the World Health Organization. And government officials in that country are concerned.
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Canadian Coalition Calls for Food Ad Ban
March 25, 2008
A Canadian panel has called for the government to ban the marketing of all "unhealthy" food and beverages to children.
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Teen Alarm Users Told to Buzz Off
March 4, 2008
Teenagers in the United Kingdom have organized a grass roots action to stomp out an alarm system they say unfairly targets them by emitting a high-pitched and painful sounds that drive teens from their sources but cannot be heard by adults.
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