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A new report from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design identifies unhealthy retail advertising practices, particularly in lower income areas of Philadelphia and within a few blocks of schools.

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The CDC’s 2012 School Health Policies and Practices Study surveyed more than 800 school districts in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, finding a significant trend in prohibiting junk foods and some positive steps in getting students more active.

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American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown issued the following comments on behalf of Voices for Healthy Kids on the recently released F as in Fat report by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that recommends key policy strategies to reverse obesity.

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The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation has taken action to successfully reduce calories available to consumers, providing a positive example of the influence that industry can have by working together. The American Heart Association commends the 16 companies that participated in this pledge and recognizes the significant impact of this collaboration – together these companies produce 36 percent of all packaged foods and beverages purchased by families across America.

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Most students attend schools where they are exposed to fast food and beverages through meals, advertising and promotions, according to researchers at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, whose study was published in JAMA Pediatrics.

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Our children are at risk of diabetes and heart disease – about 15 percent of Hispanic teens are obese – and there’s something we can all do about it. As mamis, we do everything we can para nuestros hijos. But as communities, we can do more for all our children.

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When researchers at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health followed 7,738 kids over the course of nine years they found that kindergarteners who were overweight had four times the risk of becoming obese by the age of 14 years as normal-weight kindergartners. More than 45 percent of the obesity cases that developed by eighth grade started with those overweight kindergarteners.