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Your Overweight Kid May Need More Involved Parents

What you can do: Replace talk about weight loss and dieting with healthy food choices, opportunities for exercise, and plenty of emotional support.

Parent-Packed Lunches Dreadfully Deficient in Nutrients

What you can do: Choose organic milk and grains that are 100% whole wheat; give young kids healthy foods to establish lifelong eating habits.

Without Gardens, Schools Lack Some Important Lessons

What you can do: Buddy up with a master gardener and find parents willing to weed.

Every Class Should be Gym Class

What you can do: Create an environment that encourages physical activity both in and out of school. And recruit your kid’s principal to help you.

Renegade Lunch Lady Says Schools Are Giving Kids Diabetes

What you can do: Have lunch with your kids at their school cafeteria to experience the nutrition—or lack thereof—being offered.

Hey Mom, Pass the X-Ray Vision Carrots

What you can do: Put on your creative cap and rename the veggies on your kid’s plate. Tomato Bursts, anyone?

Kids Living Near Green Spaces Step Up Their Walking

What you can do: Don’t live near a park? Make an extra effort to get keep your kids active, and do what you can to make your community as walkable as possible.

Want Your Kids to Exercise? Use Positive Peer Pressure

What you can do: Give your child plenty of opportunities to hang with other kids—without activity-killers like the computer, TV, or video games.

Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: Gym Class Strengthens Kids’ Brains as well as Bodies

What you can do: Let your child’s school know that you want physical education to be part of the curriculum. And make sure your children get an hour of activity a day.

Certain Plastics Could Cause Childhood Obesity

What you can do: Certain chemicals from household products are showing up in the urine of obese children, so keep these products away from kids.