3 Critical Reasons To Get Out Your Seat And Move Something

For those of you that have office jobs or jobs where you sit down for most of your day, it is imperative that you break your day up by moving around.  The constant drumbeat of data supporting the dangers of being sedentary start at work since so much time is spent there.  Add to that [...]

Soft Drink Tax To Fight Obesity

Some of you may have been reading about this for last few months, but some U.S. officials are proposing an excise tax for sugary soft drinks.  Health experts from New York, Yale and Harvard, among others claim current taxes don’t go far enough to curtail abuse of these beverages, which play a key role in [...]

Child Obesity Considered Child Neglect

His name is Alexander Deundray Draper, and he’s 14 years old.  He also weighs 555 pounds.  That’s not a typo.  In addition to the obvious tragedy of being so morbidly obese, the boy’s mother, 49-year-old Jerri Althea Gray, was arrested in Baltimore, MD after fleeing South Carolina for child neglect and failing to appear in [...]