School-based efforts at better nutrition, more exercise and improved education about healthy living can help kids who are most at risk for obesity keep the weight off, compared to children in schools without such programs, a new study suggests.
But the program failed to reduce the overall numbers of overweight and obese schoolchildren -- those numbers fell by 4 percent over three years whether the 42 middle schools in the study had such initiatives or not, the researchers report.
Do you know what dry drowning is or how to prevent it happening to your kids? There are some important facts every parent needs to know before their child enters the water. This is especially true when children are in or near large bodies of water.
Contributor: Lyn Lomasi
Published: Jun 01, 2010
Amy Cohen Efron is trying to get more people to vote for DeafHope in the Chase Community Giving program on Facebook. (DeafHope is based in Oakland, California. ) According to the Chase Community Giving program page on Facebook, there are just 5 days left to vote. DeafHope survived the first round, but is hoping to win in round two so they can have the funding to build a shelter for abused deaf women and children. Amy's blog has all the details and instructions.
Back in the early 1990s, I had my own indirect brush with domestic violence. A secretary at the office where I worked was being threatened by her boyfriend or husband. The entire office was worried for her safety that night. They turned to me, because I was the only one that the man threatening her did not know about, plus I was deaf and the woman and man were hearing. That night the woman and her child stayed in my house for their own safety until they could find another place to go.
As Amy points out, it is even harder for deaf abused women and children who have to go to shelters where they are unable to communicate with staff.
DeafHope may not win, but awareness of DeafHope and the general awareness of the needs of abused deaf women and their children will definitely increase as a result of this charity voting competition.
Help Abused Deaf Women and Their Children originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Sunday, January 17th, 2010 at 02:54:45.
