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Obesity: Yes, we need a solution
There’s no question children in Ontario aren’t as healthy as they could be. And there’s no question that we should be encouraging our kids to eat better foods and exercise more. As the...
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Health unit pitches 5-year, $10 million plan to tackle childhood obesity
Inspired by cities like New York and Los Angeles, the local health unit has pitched an ambitious plan to the province to reduce the rate of childhood obesity in Windsor-Essex by 20 per cent over five...
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Star editorial: Healthier kids
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit wants the provincial government to provide $10 million over five years to tackle our childhood obesity rates. Kids in this region are 10 per cent heavier than the...
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‘Fat letters’ not a good way to combat childhood obesity, doc says
There would be thousands of “fat letters” going home if this area followed the lead of some U.S. jurisdictions that are weighing and measuring schoolchildren to single out the overweight ones....
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Schoolkids should be walking, not driven
Re: School traffic woes an unsolvable riddle, by Dave Waddell, Feb. 25. So, parents are concerned about expensive parking tickets for double parking near St. James Elementary School. Recently a group...
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Closing schools a waste of money
When will the stupid school board get it into their tiny feeble minds that you do not close schools? For every school you consolidate, you have a now big added expense. Busing! They are making Pearson...
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Brown-John: School parking tickets go to the deserving
By Lloyd Brown-John Three, maybe even four, hearty cheers for Windsor officials responsible for handing out parking and other tickets to that coterie of inconsiderate louts cluttering school...
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Junk food advertising assailed: 'A great deal of harm is being done'
Children are so bombarded with junk food advertisements that it’s having a “devastating effect” on their health, the Heart and Stroke Foundation says in an alarming report that calls for government...
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