Fat, Lazy N.C.: Owner of fitness business sets out to change Tarheels' unhealthy image

We're fat and lazy in North Carolina -- at least that's what two new studies claim. The Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently ranked the state 10th in the nation in obesity, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just reported that one in four North Carolinians had not exercised in the past month. That translates into a ranking of fourth in the ...

Advocates raise alarm about Inland childhood obesity

Almost one of every three Riverside County public school students in fifth, seventh and ninth grades is overweight, Riverside County Department of Public Health analysts have found. Department researchers used 2009 physical fitness test data collected in the three grades by public school districts throughout the county to determine the percentage of students who were overweight and obese.

Time in fitness room beneficial to golfers - From the Poughkeepsie Journal

Everyone is working out these days, even golfers!

No Change in Obesity Rate of New York Schoolchildren

Forty percent of the nearly 637,000 children in kindergarten through the eighth grade were found to be overweight or obese in the 2008-9 school year.

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