childhood obesity

The Youth Crisis Center (YCC) and Feeding Northeast Florida are teaming up to combat obesity in Jacksonville’s children.September is National Childhood…

Childhood ObesityIt’s a new way to fight a serious public health problem in this country and on the First Coast: childhood obesity.About 13 million kids…

A couple dozen Jacksonville kids will travel to Washington D.C. this weekend to present their plan for combating childhood obesity to the U.S. Surgeon…

Out of every 10 babies born in Florida today, six are expected to become overweight or obese before graduating from high school. Projections like that…

Jacksonville is one of six U.S. cities receiving grants to help fight childhood obesity. The award money will go toward building healthy food stores in…

Thursday morning, hundreds of students in hundreds of sweat bands bobbed and clapped along to “Gangnam Style” as they prepared for a 200-meter warm-up in…