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  • Parents: What protection would you want for your kids participating on an online social network?
    Please answer it at LinkedIn Answers.

  • Over a Million Children in Gyms: Report
    Interesting, and, in my opinion, this trend will only continue to grow: Last year, 1.3 million children ages 6 to 11 were members of a health club, according to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association. And as of April, a quarter of IHRSA member clubs surveyed had children’s programs.

  • Kids Fitness Gyms - Bulldog Interactive Fitness
    I just stumbled across Bulldog Interactive Fitness from Canada. It is a franchise operation that was started by a husband and wife team (Holly and James Bond). I think that we will continue to see more of these centres spring up around the world. On a side note, I also noticed that Canadians get a tax [...]

  • 14 Community Grants Funded in North Carolina
    I hope this helps: The N.C. Division of Public Health announced yesterday that 14 community grants focusing on obesity have been awarded to county health departments across the state, including two in Northwest North Carolina. Grants of $380,000 from the Childhood Obesity Prevention Project went to the Appalachian District Health Department for work focusing on Watauga County, [...]

  • YMCA Launches Healthy U
    YMCA launch a new programme, “Healthy U” aimed at increasing the health and wellbeing of children in New Jersey: A new initiative by the Horizon Foundation for New Jersey will use fun exercises and promotion of healthy eating habits to reduce obesity in 18,000 school-age children through YMCAs statewide, foundation officials announced today. The Healthy U program, [...]

  • Teacher, Students, Video Games
    Sandy Hopkins from Delaware Trail Elementary uses video games to promote physical activity: Today, thanks to a grant from an educational foundation at her school that supports innovative teaching ideas in the classroom, Hopkins’ students play their way to physical fitness with “Dance, Dance, Revolution” and “EyeToy” for Sony’s PlayStation 2. Hopkins operates the games as [...]

  • CanDO and Will Do
    My philosophy towards public health and social problems is to find work on the solution from the ground up. Start with the individual, then family, then local community, then state, then national. This is why I like this initiative - the solution is skewered towards the local community: Picking up the phone may not be the [...]

  • Video: The Hollowmen Talk Childhood Obesity
    Very funny, satirical look at a Government wheels of “action” at work (from ABC TV). Click through to the first episode.

  • MyPed Turns 1
    MyPed turns one today Thank you for your support: Markov, Navin, Jarmal, Hayden, Oz, Apoorva, Jen, Jeff, Stefan, Nick, Telematics Trust, Amanda, Jo, John, David, Scott and Irena (from EY), Michael, Wendy, Ash and Ell (my brothers), Charmaine, Tim, Brendon and Deirdre, Peter, Dom, Sandi, Maurice, the DC’s, the Uni Gang, Eric, Michelle, Viki [...]

  • Iowa School Gets $350K for Increasing PE
    Keokuk Schools in Iowa boosts PE support: The Keokuk schools landed a nearly $350,000 grant to beef up the weight room, provide aerobic fitness equipment and promote a more active lifestyle for students from kindergarten through high school. The weight and aerobic equipment will not only help physical education students achieve better fitness. High school athletes will [...]


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