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Their Loss is Our Gain

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By Claus von Zastrow on April 7, 2008

WeightLoss.jpgRichard Simmons should feel vindicated by a new studies that demonstrate the importance of health and physical education. 

Today's on-line edition of Education Week reports that five elementary schools in Philadelphia have managed to control obesity rates among their students by keeping sodas and candy out of vending machines, trimming back snack foods, encouraging physical education and educating parents, teachers and children about healthy nutrition.

According to a study of these schools published today in Pediatrics, students in schools that followed these steps for two years were half as likely to become fat as students in schools that did not.

Link to this story: http://www.learningfirst.org/their-loss-our-gain

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