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View Post: Mississippi the state with Highest Teen Child birth cases
Daily ...
7 Jan 2009 ...
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View Post: Healthcare Needed for Our Tweens and Teens : Eco Child’s Play
8 hours ago
Healthcare Dilemma for Our Children. While there has been a decline in teen pregnancies, other health problems have been rising among our youth, especially obesity and mental health disorders, including anxiety and depression. ...
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View Post: More ‘Screen Time’ Linked to Poor Fitness in Girls - Health News ...
22 hours ago
7 (HealthDay News) — Teenage girls who spend more than two hours of “screen time” a day watching TV, surfing the Web or text-messaging are less likely to be physically fit, a new Australian study finds.Interestingly, boys who were part ...
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View Post: Ohio ranks 25th for teen pregnancies; Mississippi has highest rate ...
7 Jan 2009
The state's one-year increase of nearly 1000 teen births could be a statistical blip, said Ron Cossman, a Mississippi State University researcher who focuses on children's health statistics. More than a year ago, a preliminary report on ...
View Blog: Health and Fitness - cleveland.com - http://blog.cleveland.com/health/

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View Post: Tip of the day: Make healthy habits a family affair: Consumer ...
21 hours ago
Read more on the 6 ways to help your child maintain a healthy weight, take a look at our best tips for putting together healthful meals for less, and for fitness advice for the whole family, see our DIY Guide to Exercise & Dieting. ...
View Blog: Consumer Reports Health Blog - http://blogs.consumerreports.org/health/

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View Post: Teen birth rates up sharply in Arizona
20 hours ago
"Clearly, Arizona has a substantial teen-pregnancy problem," said Sheila Sjolander, chief of the Bureau of Women and Children's Health at the state Department of Health Services. "There's no getting around that. ...
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View Post: Teens and Pets
5 Jan 2009 by Nancy L. Brown, PhD  
No matter how cranky a teen might feel, it is unlikely to manifest itself at the family dog or cat. No matter how frustrated a parent might feel, seeing their child curled up with their dog or cat is bound to pull at the heartstrings, ...
View Blog: Teen Health 411 - http://www.healthline.com/blogs/teen_health/

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View Post: Philip N. Cohen: Why Are American Women Having More Children?
7 Jan 2009 by webmaster@huffingtonpost.com  
2009-01-07-teenbirths.jpg. Source: National Center for Health Statistics. So teen and early births are part of the story. But birth rates increased for women of all ages, so it's not the whole story. Another answer is single women. ...
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View Post: FitnessNewsSite.com » Blog Archive » Children’s Exercise Lacking ...
1 hour ago
“However the researchers did believe that improving children’s diets, which they claim to have “changed markedly” over the last two decades, would be likely to have a greater impact on their overall health and weight.” ...
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View Post: AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
More U.S. Children Face Poverty
14 hours ago ...
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