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When the preschoolers reached about age 15, 10 percent of the early-to-bed group, 16 percent of the middle group, and 23 percent of the late-to-bed group were obese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after the researchers controlled for other factors like birthweight, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and the mother's weight, the preschoolers who went to bed late — after 9 p.m. — were still twice as likely to develop obesity in their teens as the early-to-bed group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That you can ask one question of a mother of a 4.5-year-old child and it relates to body mass index 10 years later — that's pretty remarkable,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.auburn.edu/~buckhja/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Buckhalt\u003c/a>, a pediatric sleep researcher at Auburn University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research hasn't proved that later bedtimes directly cause obesity, only that there seems to be some connection between the two, the sleep scientists agree. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For parents concerned that their preschoolers may one day gain excess weight, a study published Thursday suggests one strategy for keeping the little ones on track that isn't related to food: Tuck them in earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists reporting online in \u003ca href=\"http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(16)30361-4/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The Journal of Pediatrics\u003c/em>\u003c/a> found, in a study of not quite a thousand U.S. children, that preschoolers who got to bed by 8 p.m. were about half as likely as those who turned in after 9 p.m. to develop obesity in their teenage years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Obesity continues to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/26/475622225/plateau-but-no-decline-child-obesity-rates-hold-steady\" target=\"_blank\">a major health issue\u003c/a> for children and teens in the United States, and many studies have shown that issues with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/12/11/369837792/does-snoring-leave-tots-more-vulnerable-to-childhood-obesity\" target=\"_blank\">sleep quality\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129636783\">duration\u003c/a> can contribute to that risk, says \u003ca href=\"https://cph.osu.edu/people/sanderson\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Anderson\u003c/a>, epidemiologist at the Ohio State University and lead author on the current research. But \"there haven't been many studies that have looked at bedtime,\" Anderson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A child's bedtime is an important factor to examine because it's something a parent generally has some control over, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.uchospitals.edu/physicians/lisa-medalie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Medalie\u003c/a>, director of the Pediatric Insomnia Program at the University of Chicago Medicine, whereas kids often have a fixed wakeup time because they have to get out the door in time for camp or school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Kids can get really fussy when you keep them up too late,\" Medalie says. \"If they get too fussy and get overtired, then it actually makes it harder for them to sleep.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out whether preschooler bedtimes might be linked to obesity later in life, Anderson and colleagues looked back at data collected for 977 children across nine states as part of a government-funded research project called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nichd.nih.gov/research/supported/Pages/seccyd.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers followed these children from birth in 1991 through their adolescent years. They recorded a range of data — everything from a child's height and weight at different ages to a mother's education level and attention to her child's needs as observed through video recordings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly for Anderson's study, when the children reached about 4.5 years old, researchers included this in the list of questions they asked mothers: \"What time does your child go to bed on most weekday evenings?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turned out that about 25 percent of the children went to bed at 8 p.m. or earlier, half went to bed between 8 and 9 p.m., and 25 percent went to bed after 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Anderson and her team found that the bedtime category a child fell into was linked to his or her likelihood of being obese. When the preschoolers reached about age 15, 10 percent of the early-to-bed group, 16 percent of the middle group, and 23 percent of the late-to-bed group were obese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after the researchers controlled for other factors like birthweight, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and the mother's weight, the preschoolers who went to bed late — after 9 p.m. — were still twice as likely to develop obesity in their teens as the early-to-bed group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That you can ask one question of a mother of a 4.5-year-old child and it relates to body mass index 10 years later — that's pretty remarkable,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.auburn.edu/~buckhja/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Buckhalt\u003c/a>, a pediatric sleep researcher at Auburn University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research hasn't proved that later bedtimes directly cause obesity, only that there seems to be some connection between the two, the sleep scientists agree. Research on this point has only just begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Anderson says she recognizes that it's not always possible to get kids to bed early. Some parents' work schedules \"don't allow them to arrive home early enough in the evening to both spend time with the child and have an early bedtime,\" she notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Anderson says, for lots of reasons, \"parents might want to consider what it would take for them to have a regular early bedtime routine for their preschool-aged child.\" And aim for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Early+Bedtime+For+Preschoolers+Might+Help+Reduce+Obesity+Risk+Later&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Organized sports activities are limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->That’s where \u003ca title=\"http://www.coaching-corps.org/\" href=\"http://www.coaching-corps.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coaching Corps\u003c/a> comes in. Whitehead volunteered to serve at BAHIA through the nonprofit program, which connects college-age coaches with kids from low-income neighborhoods. Here’s how it works: Coaching Corps chapters recruit volunteers from colleges, universities, and the community, then train them to be coaches. The organization then places coaches in existing after school programs in under-served areas. So far, around 1,600 coaches and 19,000 kids have participated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, one in three children is now considered overweight or obese. For Latinos and African-Americans that number goes up to 40 percent. 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(The Field Poll)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DeCamillo told me that if you break the polling data down, 45 percent \"strongly support\" the idea of a special fee on sodas, up from 33 percent in last year's poll. \"That's a statistically significant change,\" he explained. \"Usually on tax measures -- and we do so many tax polls ... we really put the emphasis on the 'support strongly' proportion. Those people usually don't back down in the face of opposition campaigns. They are base core supporters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://fitprogram.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=21\" href=\"http://fitprogram.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=21\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Wendy Slusser\u003c/a> is the medical director of UCLA's Fit for Healthy Weight Program. In the past, she says, our major health issues were clean water and clear air. \"In a way, we've addressed that with legislation,\" she told me. \"Now it's really about health, healthy food and good health. These are the emerging issues of the next decade that we're going to have to be working on in a big way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Learn More: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Listen to Contra Costa County Public Health Director Dr. Wendel Brunner's\u003ca title=\"http://cchealth.org/topics/podcast/\" href=\"http://cchealth.org/topics/podcast/\" target=\"_blank\"> podcast\u003c/a> in response to today's poll. He discusses the health effects of childhood obesity and his opinion of a soda tax.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_3539\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/FoodDesert_BurgerKing_JohnHenryMostyn_Flickr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-3539\" title=\"(John Henry Mostyn: Flickr)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/FoodDesert_BurgerKing_JohnHenryMostyn_Flickr-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"(John Henry Mostyn: Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(John Henry Mostyn: Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proponents of public health have long worried about \"food deserts\"-- but it took First Lady Michelle Obama to put the expression on the map when she launched her \"\u003ca title=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/\" href=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Let's Move\u003c/a>\" campaign. A food desert brings to mind an impoverished neighborhood where the main streets are lined with fast-food outlets or convenience stores with nary a full-scale supermarket to be found. \"Lack of access contributes to poor diet and can lead to higher levels of obesity and other diet-related diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease. But, this is a solvable problem,\" it says on the\u003ca title=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/healthy-communities\" href=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/healthy-communities\" target=\"_blank\"> Let's Move\u003c/a> website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to solve the problem the Administration has pledged to end food deserts within seven years by helping communities invest in healthier food outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"I never bought into the 'supermarkets make you thinner' story.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It sounds laudable, but new research finds that food deserts may not be so barren after all. \u003ca title=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/bio.asp?i=270\" href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/bio.asp?i=270\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Lee\u003c/a> at the Public Policy Institute of California, set out to look at food deserts, expecting to find that they were the widespread problem they've been reported to be. Instead she found something very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By looking at national records of businesses across the country, she could compare more disadvantaged neighborhoods to their wealthier counterparts. Yes, poorer neighborhoods had more fast-food outlets, but she also found they had more grocery stores. \"So the picture I came away with ... is they don't have worse access to healthier food stores, it's more a picture of food diversity,\" she said in an interview. \"That was a surprise to me. I did not expect to find that.\" She says she crunched the data in different ways. \"It came out consistently.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her \u003ca title=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612000810\" href=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612000810\" target=\"_blank\">study,\u003c/a> \"The Role of Local Food Availability in Explaining Obesity Risk among Young School-Aged Children,\" Lee then turned to obesity rates among children. \"That was the second question,\" she said. \"Does what families have access to, does it even matter for explaining who becomes obese over time and who doesn't? ... It has no relation to obesity outcomes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a researcher, Lee believes it's time to reflect on policies that focus on grocery stores. \"We all like a silver bullet,\" she told me, \"but this is not it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second\u003ca title=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/School-and-residential-neighborhood-food\" href=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/School-and-residential-neighborhood-food\" target=\"_blank\"> study\u003c/a> from the Rand Corporation reinforces Lee's findings. The study could not find a \"robust relationship between food environment and consumption.\" Co-author Roland Sturm cautioned there were limitations of the study, but nonetheless added, \"I never bought into the 'supermarkets make you thinner' story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is what happens when an individual enters a supermarket. \"I challenge you to go to a grocery store and walk around and for every healthy food you can find, you can find an unhealthy counterpart,\" Lee says. \"For everything you can think of. There's whole milk and fat free milk. You can buy fresh broccoli or broccoli with cheese sauce in the frozen food aisle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a sociologist, Lee did not want her research to be taken as fodder to \"blame the individual.\" People's social situation drives health. \"These things we know,\" she says, \"Education, economic mobility, they are so predictive of your health. ... At the end of the day what drives obesity is choices we make, shaped by our environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That environment still has to do with what's actually in a grocery store, insist some advocates. \u003ca title=\"http://www.phlpnet.org/php/staff/laurison\" href=\"http://www.phlpnet.org/php/staff/laurison\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Burton Laurison\u003c/a> is with Public Health Law and Policy. While she says she agrees that access to grocery stores with fresh foods may not help to alleviate childhood obesity, she says the issue of food outlet availability is much more nuanced than 'is there a supermarket in the neighborhood?' \"We're trying to understand a complicated food retail environment where there are good options available and unhealthy options available, but pricing and quality and marketing are huge factors in how we make decisions,\" she said. \"You have to have access. It is not a single solution and I would agree with that finding in each of these studies, but you do have to have access, ... access to healthy foods matters quite a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurison points to a specific example in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point, a largely poor and minority neighborhood in San Francisco, with few grocery stores. In 1998, when the current owner purchased the store, alcohol sales accounted for 55 percent of revenue and and produce was less than two percent. In other words, more of a liquor store than a grocery store. Over the next 12 years, a community group worked with the store to improve the variety and quality of its produce. The store more than doubled its gross revenue. By 2010 produce sales were 17 percent of revenue and alcohol sales were down to 14 percent of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be hard for anyone to disagree that the improvement of this store's produce offerings is not worthwhile. But a healthier diet does not necessarily affect obesity. \"How can we improve diet to become healthier AND lose weight?\" Sturm muses. \"It's not necessarily the same thing. You can have a really good diet in many ways, but still be heavy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key component of the Let's Move! campaign was the establishment of the \u003ca title=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/childhood-obesity-task-force-unveils-action-plan-solving-problem-childhood-obesity-\" href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/childhood-obesity-task-force-unveils-action-plan-solving-problem-childhood-obesity-\" target=\"_blank\">White House Childhood Obesity Task Force\u003c/a>. The Task Force explicitly promotes supermarkets and based its recommendation on \u003ca title=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Associations-between-access-to-food-stores-and\" href=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Associations-between-access-to-food-stores-and\" target=\"_blank\">a single study\u003c/a> that found an association between supermarkets in a ZIP code and lower body weight among adolescents. But, as Sturm details in his study, the Task Force did not cite two other studies (\u003ca title=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Neighborhood-playgrounds-fast-food-restaurants-and\" href=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Neighborhood-playgrounds-fast-food-restaurants-and\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Body-mass-index-in-elementary-school-children\" href=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Body-mass-index-in-elementary-school-children\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>) that found no connection.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her \u003ca title=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612000810\" href=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612000810\" target=\"_blank\">study,\u003c/a> \"The Role of Local Food Availability in Explaining Obesity Risk among Young School-Aged Children,\" Lee then turned to obesity rates among children. \"That was the second question,\" she said. \"Does what families have access to, does it even matter for explaining who becomes obese over time and who doesn't? ... It has no relation to obesity outcomes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a researcher, Lee believes it's time to reflect on policies that focus on grocery stores. \"We all like a silver bullet,\" she told me, \"but this is not it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second\u003ca title=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/School-and-residential-neighborhood-food\" href=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/School-and-residential-neighborhood-food\" target=\"_blank\"> study\u003c/a> from the Rand Corporation reinforces Lee's findings. The study could not find a \"robust relationship between food environment and consumption.\" Co-author Roland Sturm cautioned there were limitations of the study, but nonetheless added, \"I never bought into the 'supermarkets make you thinner' story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is what happens when an individual enters a supermarket. \"I challenge you to go to a grocery store and walk around and for every healthy food you can find, you can find an unhealthy counterpart,\" Lee says. \"For everything you can think of. There's whole milk and fat free milk. You can buy fresh broccoli or broccoli with cheese sauce in the frozen food aisle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a sociologist, Lee did not want her research to be taken as fodder to \"blame the individual.\" People's social situation drives health. \"These things we know,\" she says, \"Education, economic mobility, they are so predictive of your health. ... At the end of the day what drives obesity is choices we make, shaped by our environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That environment still has to do with what's actually in a grocery store, insist some advocates. \u003ca title=\"http://www.phlpnet.org/php/staff/laurison\" href=\"http://www.phlpnet.org/php/staff/laurison\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Burton Laurison\u003c/a> is with Public Health Law and Policy. While she says she agrees that access to grocery stores with fresh foods may not help to alleviate childhood obesity, she says the issue of food outlet availability is much more nuanced than 'is there a supermarket in the neighborhood?' \"We're trying to understand a complicated food retail environment where there are good options available and unhealthy options available, but pricing and quality and marketing are huge factors in how we make decisions,\" she said. \"You have to have access. It is not a single solution and I would agree with that finding in each of these studies, but you do have to have access, ... access to healthy foods matters quite a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurison points to a specific example in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point, a largely poor and minority neighborhood in San Francisco, with few grocery stores. In 1998, when the current owner purchased the store, alcohol sales accounted for 55 percent of revenue and and produce was less than two percent. In other words, more of a liquor store than a grocery store. Over the next 12 years, a community group worked with the store to improve the variety and quality of its produce. The store more than doubled its gross revenue. By 2010 produce sales were 17 percent of revenue and alcohol sales were down to 14 percent of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be hard for anyone to disagree that the improvement of this store's produce offerings is not worthwhile. But a healthier diet does not necessarily affect obesity. \"How can we improve diet to become healthier AND lose weight?\" Sturm muses. \"It's not necessarily the same thing. You can have a really good diet in many ways, but still be heavy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key component of the Let's Move! campaign was the establishment of the \u003ca title=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/childhood-obesity-task-force-unveils-action-plan-solving-problem-childhood-obesity-\" href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/childhood-obesity-task-force-unveils-action-plan-solving-problem-childhood-obesity-\" target=\"_blank\">White House Childhood Obesity Task Force\u003c/a>. The Task Force explicitly promotes supermarkets and based its recommendation on \u003ca title=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Associations-between-access-to-food-stores-and\" href=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Associations-between-access-to-food-stores-and\" target=\"_blank\">a single study\u003c/a> that found an association between supermarkets in a ZIP code and lower body weight among adolescents. But, as Sturm details in his study, the Task Force did not cite two other studies (\u003ca title=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Neighborhood-playgrounds-fast-food-restaurants-and\" href=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Neighborhood-playgrounds-fast-food-restaurants-and\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Body-mass-index-in-elementary-school-children\" href=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Body-mass-index-in-elementary-school-children\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>) that found no connection.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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