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Carnell, who has also looked at the eating behaviors of children whose food choices are restricted, says the key is the way in which you seek to limit a child's food intake. "If you have a house full of goodies and say, 'Johnny, you can't have this,' then that could be damaging," she says. "But if the way you restrict your child is just to provide a healthy home environment where you allow them a little bit of choice--apples or grapes for dessert, for instance--then you're giving children a chance to decide for themselves while...
...schoolyard taunts and a thin-obsessed culture. What they must do instead is teach their kids to value those things less--and value other things more. Kelly Lowry, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of child and adolescent psychiatry at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, says the key lies in accentuating the positive. "Parents need to emphasize health behaviors, not the numbers on a scale," she says...
...organic fertilizer. (San Francisco brews a variety of compost recipes from its waste and sells them to more than 200 local vineyards.) But first you need to get citizens on board. In San Francisco, about half its residents participate in the curbside program, along with thousands of restaurants. The key is getting over what Robert Reed of Norcal Waste Systems calls the "ick factor"--the fear that leaving food in a curbside bin will lead to bad smells and marauding rodents. But that problem can be solved with biodegradable bags, and ultimately putting food scraps out for recycling shouldn...
...changes, however, there is hope. Vos' work shows that just as fat can be recruited into the liver, it can also be coaxed out, as long as the child eats properly and stays active enough to keep calorie input in line with what's burned off. Kumar says the key to reversing liver abnormalities--not to mention all the additional burdens excess fat places on the heart, bones and other organs--is to detect signs of weight gain in kids early. "We don't want to get to the point where children are so overweight, they have trouble moving...
...disconnect between intentions and results? "This is a classic example in which parents need to literally walk the walk," says Dr. David Katz, of Yale University's School of Public Health. "We know that kids will be more active if their parents are more active." The key, says Katz, is to get the entire family to be more imaginative about what activity means. Not everyone likes to play soccer or climb trees, and most kids won't sit still for an hour-long workout--or more likely, sitting still is exactly what they will do. But none of that...