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Victor Pryles's Articles in Parenting

  • Your Obese Child & School Programs
    More than five years ago, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) published ‘Guidelines for School and Community Programs’ to promote physical activity in children and teenagers, in hopes of helping them develop lifelong exercise and physical fitness regimens.

    If you, as a parent, understand and embrace these guidelines, you can work with your school system and with community centers and programs, like the YMCA and the Boy Scouts, to encourage and even help to develop physica...
  • Your Obese Child & School Nutrition
    Good Nutrition in School Can Help to Fight Childhood Obesity

    Perhaps you are trying to help your child lose weight, or you feel he or she may be in danger of becoming overweight or unhealthy because of their eating and exercise habits.

    If so, it is important that you consider the impact of your child’s time at school as you think about what you need to change.

    As the U.S. government has studied obesity, many of their agencies have produced reports and established gui...