Tag: childhood obesity

  • Canadian National Dialogue on Childhood Obesity Epidemic

    photo credit: mini true The obesity epidemic is tragically affecting our Canadian children. We are talking about children as young as age 2, during their childhood years, suffering from the same diseases as obese adults, including Type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure. At one end of the age spectrum, older people are living longer and…

  • Fight Childhood Obesity With Kicks for Candy + Free Karate Lessons

    Kudos to Canada’s Best Karate (in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada) for sponsoring the Kicks for Candy Campaign to fight childhood obesity by promoting physical activity for children in our community. Canada’s Best Karate is asking for your help to make the children in our community to be more aware of the healthy, active lifestyle. Obesity had…

  • First on Our List of Online Alerts to Health Hazards of Children

    photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography Now that we have just finished celebrating Mother’s Day, we would like to shift our spotlight to the primary concern of a lot of moms: the health hazards of children. Here is the first alert on our list of online alerts to health hazards of children. Childhood obesity in the…