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Childhood Obesity

Childhood Obesity is Easily Solved

by Fred Hahn on March 18, 2012

Thanks to Google’s key word search, I receive a half dozen interesting but frustrating articles on childhood obesity on a daily basis. Every single one of them says the same darn thing – eat less fat, eat whole grains, exercise more, blah blah blah. Drives me nuts!
Childhood obesity is easily solved. What I [...]

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Why Is Your Kid Fat?

by Fred Hahn on April 3, 2011

There is no doubt that the surge in adolescent obesity is real. As a father of two wonderful young lasses, I am in their school yards virtually everyday and see it first hand. I will say however that, at least in New York City, most kids appear to be of normal body weight. The truly [...]

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My Plea To Michelle Obama

February 10, 2010

Michelle Obama was on Good Morning America on Tuesday, February 9th to discuss her war on adolescent obesity. She calls it the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign. I highly commend her effort and desire to end this ‘epidemic.’ You can watch the segment here.
While her heart and soul is right on the money, unfortunately, her [...]

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Paradigm Paralysis

July 20, 2009

Most of us have heard that the definition of insanity is doing something the same way over and over again all the while expecting a different result.
Adolescent obesity – once rare and uncommon is now not only common, but escalating. What we've been recommending for over a decade now to combat this epidemic is [...]

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What makes you fat?

February 15, 2009

Take a good long look at this picture:
 
The experts would have us believe that the child in this picture is fat because he isn't outside playing and instead is watching TV.
Surfing the web however, I found scores of pix of thin kids watching the evil, fat producing TV.
Here's a few:
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Oprah and Friends – update

January 28, 2009

I thought that the interview with Bob Greene was live for today. My apologies. I was informed to day that this is a taped show on XM Satellite Radio 156 and
will air on Feb 20th. More details at www.Oprah.com
A thousand apologies!

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Oprah and Friends – Bob Greene show

January 27, 2009

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I'll be interviewed by Bob Greene on Oprah and Friends, tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon at 1PM EST.We'll be discussing my new book Strong Kids Healthy Kids.
Tune in and listen!

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Adolescent Obesity – The Misinformation Continues

December 14, 2008

As some of you know, I am certified by the American Council on Exercise as a personal trainer. ACE as it's called for short, is one of the largest if not THE largest certification trainer agency in the world. You'd think that an organization of this size and strength would be vigilant in putting forth [...]

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Fit Still Means Fat

October 13, 2008

I awoke today to a Google alert that had this article on a recent study on physical activity and obesity in children.
In my new book Strong Kids Healthy Kids, I mention that in my research into the subject, physical activity did little if anything to help kids lose weight. This study seems to be [...]

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