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Please! Fight Obesity!!

26 Tuesday Oct 2010

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The kids were sweet but oversize! The boy bulged in various places and had moved from being healthy to simply being plain fat! The girl who was younger to him, looked destined to follow her brother’s footsteps. She was pudgy and the puppy fat showed signs of permanence that should not have been there, so early in life. Seeing these growing kids set me thinking. In 2007, I remember reading that there were 97 million obese people in India. God knows what the figure is today. It’s worth thinking about particularly since today, October 26, is World Obesity Day.

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Help Your Children Avoid Diabetes

13 Thursday Nov 2008

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I was shocked to read in the Deccan Chronicle that a wonderful age such as childhood is turning out to be bitter for many children who have fallen prey to diabetes. This disease seems to be taking on alarming proportions. It is estimated that over 250 million people all over the world suffer from diabetes. What is scary is that the incidence of Type 2 diabetes previously thought to be an adult-only disease is now affecting an increasing number of children worldwide. It is widely associated with weight gain and lack of exercise,

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June 15- Father’s Day

15 Sunday Jun 2008

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Today is Father’s Day and it make me happy and proud to be a father. I can tell you that being a father is a great feeling. I have been one for more than 25 years.

It was good to read what Katherine Kersten wrote in the St. Paul, Minneapolis Star Tribune: “We Need Dads 365 Days A Year”

Yes, indeed.

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Active Parents Raise Active Children

24 Saturday Nov 2007

Posted by Prem Rao in Executive Health

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If you tend to blame your kids for being couch potatoes, ask yourself how active you were during pregnancy ! Recent research from the University of Bristol covering more than 5000 kids of age 10 and 11 found that children whose mothers were more active during pregnancy were more active themselves. They say this is unlikely to be due to factors in the womb but is more likely that women who are active during pregnancy are more likely to be active post-pregnancy, and this in turn influences children’s physical activity.
As well as the link to more active children, the season in which children were born had an effect on how active they were.  The research also indicated that children born during summer to winter were more active than those born in spring.

If the results are anything to go by, it’s all the more reason executives in the course of pregnancy have appropriate amounts of physical activity – not only for their well being but also for that of their to-be-born children !

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