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Heroic Nurse – the Last Surviving 'Angel of Bataan and Corregidor' – Passes Away
Mildred Dalton Manning, the last surviving member of a group of U.S. Army and Navy nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines at the start of ...
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In recent years, the national childhood obesity rate has leveled off. However, some cities and states have reported modest declines in their rates, following peaks in the early 2000s.
- Philadelphia, New York City, Mississippi, and California are among the places reporting declining childhood obesity rates as a result of taking comprehensive action to address the epidemic.
- Despite signs of progress, socioeconomic, geographic, and racial and ethnic disparities in obesity rates are persisting in many places.
Growing evidence suggests that strong, far-reaching changes—those that make healthy foods available in schools and communities and integrate physical activity into people's daily lives—are working to reduce childhood obesity rates. More efforts are needed to implement these types of sweeping changes nationwide and to address the health disparities gap that exists among underserved communities and populations.
The 2012 F as in Fat report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America’s Health examines how obesity rates could change in states by 2030 if trends continue on their current trajectory.
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